On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:25, Austin Acton wrote: > So as Mandrake folk mentioned earlier, the immediate plans for 9.1 are > bugfixes and package updates. > What I'm seeing on the cooker list is a desire for: better fonts, better > font control, better hardware support, fancier widgets. > So the questions I see are: > 1. Since font availability and hardware support are not immediate > Mandrake problems, is there any way Mandrake can help the linux > community as a whole build better font libraries and better hardware > drivers? > 2. Since font control and widget control are immediate Mandrake > problems, are there any plans to upgrade/rewrite drakfont, and update > libdrakx (or whatever) to GTK2 or QT3? > Just out of curiosity... > And no, "all of the above would be nice" is not a cool answer. :-) > Austin
If you actually read the archives, you'd know that it's already been confirmed all drak tools will be ported to GTK2. You'd also know Frederic Crozat is going to implement freetype 2.1.x, Xft2 and fontconfig, which will help font rendering. -- adamw
