On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Mike MacCana"> > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > <quote who="Rob Weir"> > > > > > > > Fedora still uses a font server by default? Why? > > > > So that workstations don't have to cache large amounts of fonts locally? > > > > Why wouldn't you want to use a font server? Am I missing something?
Thanks for the reply. > The reason why font servers are not very useful these days is because almost > all font rendering is done on the client side (thanks to freetype, RENDER, > Xft, etc). > Very few modern programs use X core fonts, or server-side font > rendering at all anymore. So the font server can only do old-school style X core fonts, rather than fontconfig niftiness? Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
