Quoting Bradley T Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:29, Ciprian Popovici wrote: [...] > > I suppose at some point we will have to lose the "no external > > dependencies other than X" slogan. :) Already 0.70 depends on XFT > > (although it's optional, granted) and now seemingly on iconv. I > > suspect libxml2 may make its entrance sometime in the future, or > > fontconfig, or something else required by FDO standards integration. > > One thing I forgot to mention in my last reply, libxml2 won't be a > requirement in blackbox. fontconfig on the other hand is already in > use by Xft 2, so it's linked with blackbox when Xft support is enabled.
About libxml: I was thinking of the age-old issue of writing styles and configs and menus in XML. But that issue is prone to be a can of worms so I won't press it. About fontconfig: if Blackbox already uses Fontconfig, can we select fonts in the styles with the FC format? I mean, "Arial 10" instead of -misc-arial-*-*-....*-iso8859-1 -- Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
