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.
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Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory
