William Gallafent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> さんは書きました: > Hi, > > I notice in the current factory distribution contains XEmacs > 21.5.25. > > I have also noticed that as of 21.5.24, xft support was > added by Stephen J. Turnbull, which allows the use of xft > features such as truetype font rendering in XEmacs.
I discussed this already with Stephen J. Turnbull and he recommended against it. He said that the Xft support is still very experimental and not yet stable enough for regular users. I will enable Xft support in XEmacs probably for SuSE Linux 10.2. > Furthermore, I've noticed that the spec file for the xemacs > source rpm does not specify the following on its command > line: > > "--with-xft=emacs,gauges,menubars" > > That would enable xft fonts in XEmacs, which would be a Very > Good Thing. I've been using xft-patched versions of XEmacs > 21.5 for years (and I'm using one on SuSE 9.2 to write this > email), and it's a big improvement. > > I was going to add this as a feature request in the opensuse > bugzilla, but my newly created login isn't working well, so > I thought that here would be a good place to mention it, in > the hope that the XEmacs package maintainer notices! > > It would be really nice if this made it in for 10.1, though > I imagine it's a bit late for that! It's only a one-line > addition to the spec file, so it's not a prob for me to > compile it myself in due course, but I think it would be > nice if it were switched on by default, since some may not > know about it yet! > > Apologies if this is the wrong forum in which to make such a > request (and pointers in the right direction gratefully > accepted). -- Mike FABIAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
