On 3/1/06, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:44:50 -0500
> "Alexandre Leclerc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I found that the font handling in synedit is not as it should. I mean
> > that is does not look as nice and smooth and sweet as in
> > kwrite/kdevelop for example. And ultimately in windows is it very not
> > nice.
> >
> > I was just asking myself what is the cause of that and can this be
> > improved?
>
> gtk1 does not support antialiasing.
> gtk2 supports it.
> Synedit uses fixed width for each character, so the best results is achieved
> by using gtk2 and fonts like courier. Unfortunately the gtk2 ExtTextOut
> function is not optimised and therefore very slow.
Ok, I now understand. So it is at first a matter of using gtk1 or
gtk2, which is slow because of ExtTextOut.
Are there short term, mid term or long term plans to use gtk2 for laz
distro? (I assume that if I was courageous I could compile laz for
gtk2 on my station? :) )
Regards.
--
Alexandre Leclerc
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