On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Florian Mickler wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:05:06 -0500 (EST) > Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The reason for xfs was to move the computation and I/O off to the server, >> which might be far away, reducing both. Client-side font-rendering >> doesn't appear to solve that problem. Rather than discussing technology, >> so far all I've seen is noise about "new", etc. >> > > so far all _I_'ve seen is client-side-font rendering. and i like it. > (users perspective) > > i remember those really gruesome (from a usability-point-of-view) > font-selection dialogs (... -*-*-*-*-12-*-* or whatever..). i'm happy > the way it is now.
the format shown in the dialog is unrelated to the topic. > who run's x over network and hasn't a fast network, anyway? awai - remote accesses are usually slower than local -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
