<quote who="Rob Weir"> > 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).
It used to have a huge impact when everyone was using server side fonts, especially with things like GIMP and office programs, where you tend to have lots of font rendering going on. With a font server, it would be done out of the X server process. Bonus. These days, it's like an appendix. Not useful, but no one's prepared to do an unnecessary operation to chop it out just yet. Evolution will kill it in the end. - Jeff -- OSCON 2004: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ "Ever had a morning where you were not kissed and told 'I love you,' when the night before you SCREWED so wildly that you could not remember? GOOD MORNING!!!!" - Andre Hedrick, Linux ATA Dude -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
