Steve Swales wrote on 2001-12-14 18:17 UTC:
> Since render is not yet a standard extension, and making this change would
> disable Xft on all commercial X servers aside from XFree86, I would caution
> against it at this time.
I think, Keith addressed that objection already in his original proposal:
> >Server-side fonts were added to Xft to support legacy X servers without the
> >Render extension. I suggest that instead of using server-side fonts, Xft
> >should rasterize glyphs with FreeType and draw with the Render extension
> >where available and using the core protocol for legacy servers without
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> >Render support.
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Or did I miss something?
Markus
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