Re: [Fonts]Help with fixed fonts

[Brian Stell]

Keith Packard wrote:
> ... [text about the benefits of client side font handling]

We singing in the same choir.

> To some extent; this just means that clients are in control 
> of their fate. Place fonts in the X server and you can add 
> features to *all* applications in one place.  

Yes, but two years later after people have upgraded their 
X server (when they upgraded their OS). There is no mechanism
to automatically upgrade the X server and I think it silly
and presumptive to ask users to disturb their environment to
add a feature to an app (that is assuming they even know that
this is a possibility). I certainly would balk if mozilla
told me I had to upgrade my X server to get a feature and
I'm a mozilla developer.

-- 
Brian Stell
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