To fix my specific problem, what if I:
1) Run xfs with tt-support and copy all my Windows fonts to LInux
2) Edit font.properties to use the win fonts
This should fix all my problems, or not?
-Ole Jacob
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:42, Joi Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> > OK, I don't know a thing about jre's internals, but I can't imagine that
> > it can be very hard to make the win and linux versions compatible. Now
> > that all win fonts are available on Linux. Can somebody please explain
> > this to me. If it is possible to make a fix for this, then why not? Most
> > browsers (all?) have code that is designed to handle badly coded HTML.
> > Why should this be any different?
>
> 90% of the problems I've seen are caused by
> 1) program hard-cdes a font which is native to windows-only
> 2) program hard-cdes fixed sizes for fields based on the exact size of
> the windows-only font
> 3) program uses null layout everywhere so that the positions of strings
> can't be adjusted when the user resizes the frame
> 4) in way too many cases the frame has disabled resize control
>
> It's actually easier to write code that works cross platform. I've
> encountered damn few Windows developers willing to trade total control for
> their user convenience.
>
> I stick to the fonts provided with java, I never use null layout,
> and I never, ever disable resize control on frames.
>
> I've never had a problem with applications looking like crap on any of the
> platforms I support currently. (Windows, Linux, Solaris.)
>
> In any event, handling badly coded HTML isn't the problem. All of these
> font issues are status quo if your desktop is 1600x1200 and you don't have
> Arial. Most of the web pages out there demand 800x600 and a Windows-based
> browser before they work properly. I bypass the majority of web pages
> out there beause they override my browser's font settings with their
> own and I! Can! Not! Read! their text.
>
> All of my customers (so far) are Solaris people (big telcos.) It's a
> simple matter to make applications cross platform Don't fight the JVM.
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