On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:53 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 14:46:19 +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > I'm wondering what happened to libfreetype.so Xserver module. It's no
> > longer been built with xorg-server 1.6. Which module is supposed to
> > take over the server side font rendering for truetype and type1 fonts
> > now ?!? Yes, there are still X applications, who need it!
> > 
> AIUI this has simply been made non-modular.  freetype is still here (in
> libXfont), but now it's always loaded instead of being a separate server
> plugin.

Stronger than that, even.  FontFileRegisterFpeFunctions() would always
initialize truetype support anyway, and that was called from dix-level
code regardless of whether you'd loaded the freetype module.

Out, out, brief candle.

- ajax

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