On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:10:04PM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that XFree 4.0.2 is out, the new Render extension (more details here :
> http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/) will be available on many (most ?)
> Linux desktops.
>
> What could be interesting for Wine is resumed in the X release note :
>
> "Unlike the core protocol, Render provides no font support for applications,
> rather it allows applications to upload glyphs for display on the screen.
> This allows the client greater control over text rendering and complete
> access to the available font information while still providing hardware
> acceleration."
>
> This could solve many problems Wine has for font displaying. I know this
> argument (ie client-side font rendering) was already discussed at length
> (and rejected due to the 'remote displaying' argument). But now that the
> possibility of client-side glyphs is in the X protocol itself, we could have
> the argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion again :-)
>
> I am sending this because some people seem to live on a desertic island and
> where not aware of this extension :-) I do not feel competent enough in Wine
> internals and Windows programming to tackle this task...
Our KDE guys are over enthusiastic over this ... QT is already using
aliased fonts, KDE will do it rather soon (they had it running their
development systems).
And it looks good I have to admit :)
Ciao, Marcus
