On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 06:21, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:46:47 +0100, Adam Williamson a ecrit : > > >> An Xft patch for mozilla exists but is not stable and the mozilla team > >> doesn't seem planning to swallow it in the main tree. > > > > I thought that was the case; i think the Moz plan is simply to get it > > dealt with in the GTK2 port. The GTK2 port will use normal GTK2 font > > rendering method, which goes through Xft, thus no problem. When it's done. > > *sigh* > > False.. The gtk2 port is orthogonal to Xft use, since Mozilla gtk2 port > doesn't use pango.. But Xft2 support is being developped for Mozilla now > too...
Oh, for crying out loud...why? Why does Moz have this masochistic desire to reinvent the wheel all the time for no good reason? What's wrong with Pango? Jeez... > > Yup, found this out in a different post and it helps a lot (I have the plf > > package). Interestingly, Freetype2 is now up to 2.1.2, which they claim > > has a good-enough hinting alternative without patent problems. Has anyone > > looked into this? Why is it not in Mandrake? (Yet...) > > Because we are in version freeze now and its internal API has changed (it > would have required at least recompiling pango and maybe other packages).. > And it is not bug free either :(( Ah I see. Thanks. Pity though - if the new hinting stuff works maybe we could have really nice fonts out of the box without this stupid patent stuff :( -- adamw
