On Wed, 4 May 2016, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
>
> It is not a problem to have something optional. The problem is that
> font handling is so difficult.
>
> Moreover it is not that I want Comic Sans (as someone else wrote)
> but look: you buy a quality font, say Lucida Grande (remember that Lucida
> was always shipped with CDE at least on Solaris) and you can not use it.
> And even if
> you manage to use it, it will look ugly because the designers
> have no reason to embed hinted bitmap fonts in modern fonts
> as they did the old days. And all this should go together with utf-8
> support.
>
> Anyway...,
>
For my own two cents, I agree. Modern font handling and proper UTF8
supoort would be a big win for CDE.
-jon
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