On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi, > > From: srintuar26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: supporting XIM > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:25:41 -0500 > > > If the theme engine uses pango for layout, and a desired language > > context is understood, I think this would work fine. Pango can always > > substitute fonts for missing glyphs... > > Unfortunately, there are no tutorials for Pango. A developer of "Xplanet" > and I sent mails to a Pango developers (Evan Martin and Noah Levitt) to > ask that but they think Pango is not intended to be used from applications > directly but from upper toolkit layer. That is certainly an incorrect assumption! I and a colleague of mine are planning to use Pango in what is basically a console-mode application that produces Postscript output. There is no need for GTK2 at all. While we envision the possibility of eventually providing a GUI "wrapper" for the console app., that can happen much later in time. What we REALLY need now is better Pango documentation! > > However, GTK2 is too heavy to be recommended for *all* softwares which > displays some text. > > --- > Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
