I'd quibble with both "new" and being associated with freedesktop.org; the basic technology appeared in XFree86 4.2 and before.
Xft2/fontconfig, the mature version of the technology that will interoperate with all X servers, even those lacking the Render extension, was first released something like 16 months ago. It does represent a major architectural shift in X; the reasons for it are outlined in our Usenix paper. - Jim On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 19:52, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: > > | This is a fundamental change in X architecture, which has been > | underway for over 18 months. > > And it's strongly associated with freedesktop.org, which I'm sure will > endear Andrew to the new method even more :-) > > Cameron. -- Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory