On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:41:39AM +1000, James Gregory said > > These are all good points, but 99% of desktop users don't run multiple X > > servers, > > I suspect they will run multiple X processes, just not at once. Logging > in and out of *DM requires an Xserver to be shutdown and started. You > get the same hit there.
Hah, I find it very very hard to belive the hit here is measurable, much less noticable. But we're both talking out our arses here :-) > > aren't trying to circumvent proprietary font licenses, > > the point was that it is more difficult to circumvent such licensing if > there is no need to keep local copies of those fonts. But it's not > really relevant. right. > > but are > > using client-side font-rendering...I know a font server is of use to > > some people in fairly specialised situations, but I'm quite surprised > > that "desktopy" distros are installing it at all. > > Ok. That's a separate question. I suspect it's simply because it's > easier for distributions to have a single, tested configuration that > will deal with all circumstances. It makes no difference to the user at > all -- the installer will install X, and it will know that X depends on > xfs, and xfs will be added to the appropriate runlevels when that > package is installed. It used to be the case that using an X server was > the only way to get TrueType fonts. There's probably been no good reason > to move away from that configuration. > > I do however think that the arguments of speed, responsiveness and > stability are pretty important for all users. "Desktopy" or not. Keep in > mind that whether or not your users run multiple X servers, it's pretty > likely that they'll log in more than once. *DM will shut down the X > server in that case, but the font-server will keep running. Right, but has anyone ever measured the speed, responsiveness and stability, if any, you get from it? To me it just seems like an extra level of indirection and wasted ram, that most apps won't even use (mozilla, gnome and kde use fontconfig etc now anyway). -- Words of the day: CISU domestic disruption AGT. AMME eavesdropping import Agfa
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