Bug#411129: perl-tk: Anti aliasing / xft support missing
January Weiner wrote: > One more update on the subject. > > I have downloaded the newest perl-tk from CPAN. > $CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.027_500.tar.gz > (see announcement in the perl-tk newsgroups, msg id > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have compiled it, and now it seems to be rock solid, all the > previous problems disappeared. > > Possibly, I have messed something when rebuilding Debian packages (I > don't really know how to do that); in any case, I am retracting my > previous retraction :-) Thanks for the file up. I'm on the ptk mailing list and saw the release - I was unsure if the beta release was worth packaging. It sounds like it is - I'll get a new release out shortly. -- Michael Schultheiss E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#411129: perl-tk: Anti aliasing / xft support missing
One more update on the subject. I have downloaded the newest perl-tk from CPAN. $CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.027_500.tar.gz (see announcement in the perl-tk newsgroups, msg id [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have compiled it, and now it seems to be rock solid, all the previous problems disappeared. Possibly, I have messed something when rebuilding Debian packages (I don't really know how to do that); in any case, I am retracting my previous retraction :-) January -- January Weiner 3 -+--- Division of Bioinformatics, University of Muenster | Schloßplatz 4 (+49)(251)8321634 | D48149 Münster http://www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/ebb/ | Germany
Bug#411129: perl-tk: Anti aliasing / xft support missing
Sorry, I retract my previous bug report. While my own programs seem to be stable and running OK, apparently there is a stability issue. Try running widget -- half of the examples throw a segfault :-( Unfortunately, I lack time to study this more. I still think that the issue is worth looking into, because perl-tk with xft support is just so much more convenient (and good looking)... when it works :-) I suggest you keep this bug open, or prepare an alternative perl-tk package with xft built in. Cheers, I think this is backwards - the rules file currently has the former. I'll do a new package release shortly. Sure! January -- January Weiner 3 -+--- Division of Bioinformatics, University of Muenster | Schloßplatz 4 (+49)(251)8321634 | D48149 Münster http://www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/ebb/ | Germany
Bug#411129: perl-tk: Anti aliasing / xft support missing
January Weiner wrote: > Everything that needs to be done is to use > $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor PERL=$(PERL) > > instead of > $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor PERL=$(PERL) XFT=1 I think this is backwards - the rules file currently has the former. I'll do a new package release shortly. -- Michael Schultheiss E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#411129: perl-tk: Anti aliasing / xft support missing
Package: perl-tk Version: 1:804.027-7 Severity: normal Tk can be compiled with xft support, which allows for anti aliasing and using all fonts accessible to xft, including TrueType. Although this might have gone to "wishlist", it's more than that in my view. It's not about programs looking nice fonts; it's about most of the tk-programs having awful, almost unreadable, scaled bitmap fonts. Just install perl-tk and run the program "widget". If the windows of this program have fonts that look nice on your system, then there is another configuration issue (extra font packages installed?) -- but in any case, anti aliasing will not be supported. I have been using perl-tk with xft support for a while now, and it seems both stable and well-working. Everything that needs to be done is to use $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor PERL=$(PERL) instead of $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor PERL=$(PERL) XFT=1 in the debian/rules file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-vserver-686 Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages perl-tk depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpng12-01.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-4 X11 client-side library ii perl 5.8.8-7Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base [perlapi-5.8.8] 5.8.8-7The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii zlib1g1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime perl-tk recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
