On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5
> (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely
> drop all the pixel font stuff.
> 
> Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs
> the pixel fonts, please let me know if this is ok. Since probably
> most of you will be running VDR with UTF-8 anyway (once it is
> supported, which will be very soon), my guess would be that the
> pixel fonts are really obsolete.
> 
The extrecmenu-plugin uses pixel fonts to display icons.
Some unused character numbers are assigend with those new "characters" to 
display a symbol of a dvd, directory,....
This looks very nice and is a great usability enhancement.

So i think something similar (integrating icons in the OSD) should be possible 
also in future VDR versions.


Greetings
Thomas Wehrspann

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