Our plan is to use Pango directly or indirectly (I do not remember exactly but via SDL2). But as everything it takes time. First the VM should get headless and more. Now if we would have some other sources of fundings Pharo would not be like it is now.
Stef > On 19 Apr 2019, at 12:48, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > > Question: Can't we use some platform facility for renderering text on a > surface instead of using FreeType? > > e.g. Windows > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct2d/direct2d-and-directwrite > > <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct2d/direct2d-and-directwrite> > > > Phil > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > Garanti sans virus. www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > <x-msg://72/#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > >> On 17 Apr 2019, at 23:43, Denis Kudriashov <dionisi...@gmail.com >> <mailto:dionisi...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Somebody should just decide that new version needs to be to back ported. > > Who is the somebody that would decide? If we have to live with Pharo 7.x for > the next year (possibly a bit less) - some of the UI fixes would be much > appreciated, particularly if its easy to do. > > Perhaps if we do a 7.0.4 we might do that? > > Tim > > p.s. 7.0.3 definitely doesn’t fix the font glitch (sadly), and Guille’s fix > cause my image to deadlock for 3-5 minutes when I see it (which might > actually be helpful - is it could conform a specific type of problem)
