On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:34:37PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>
> Twas brillig at 23:29:43 29.01.2010 UTC+11 when rjs...@netspace.net.au did
> gyre and gimble:
>
> RS> xcb is designed to preserve the Xlib api. I prefer to architect
> RS> things completely new and efficient.
>
> Laughed out
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:31:01AM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> If you look at our paper here:
>
> http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/
>
> You'll discover that the font metadata turned out to be as large as
> the glyphs actually used.
>
> And client side fonts with server caching therefore
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > => there can't be that many applications using it if it was moving all the
> > time
>
> So the fact there are lots of applications using it should have told you
> that your interpretations were suspect
If the cairo website gives a lis
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Each to their own, I know which I find easier to read and I know what
> extensive studies say people prefer as well.
To each their own indeed.
> Also be careful with the images to view them full size - if your browser
> is scaling them
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:31:18AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> If any of the words I have used are too long please ask for help.
In-ter-fwhat? Oh, fuck it, I'll go get a beer instead.
Seriously, let's go back to that sentence again:
"Please download one of the latest releases in order to get an A
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:22:45 +1000
> Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>
> > 2009/4/9 Alan Cox
> >
> > > For proving fancy anti-aliasing isn't just for new apps or integrating it
> > > into old ones, KeithP's rework of twm with render is glorious...
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:13:58PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> xmms never compiled against any gtk2 version. It was written to use gtk
> 1.2, and happily compiles and runs against that today. gtk 1.x and gtk2
> are two different libraries and packaged separately in all distributions.
That'
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote:
> Speaking of which -- the applications I'm maintaining are wedded to
> using a writable color map, which has always been PseudoColor, which,
> as you point out, pretty much means 8-bit. I've been toying with
> expanding the apps'
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:32:09PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> This may as well be called joke of the year.
Funny, I thought my only 4-years-old xmms-1.2.11 didn't compile with
gtk+-2.14.7. Please, do tell me what I do wrong?
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:47:28PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > I don't think anyone here can promise you any given piece of software
> > will last 15 years, but given GTK and Firefox use Cairo (gecko not
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:47:28PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> I don't think anyone here can promise you any given piece of software
> will last 15 years, but given GTK and Firefox use Cairo (gecko not
> widget-side only), OpenOffice.org is being converted to use it, and
> they're all massive c
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:15:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Again compositing handles this cleanly and elegantly, and you can use
> compositing solely for simple 2D resource buffering and management far
> more effectively without breaking everything else interesting.
That would be something intere
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> I never saw any of the people who complain here submit a single patch
> for their issues, yet they are very quick to complain for every change
> they don't like.
> Since you don't submit patches, that means one of three things:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:36:13PM +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> I agree with you. If you're too lazy and do not have enough dedication
> to create an account on our bugzilla to file a proper bug report,
> you're probably not going to follow-up when we send patches/fixes your
> way. So I say y
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:28:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Dropping support for automatic backing store while at the same pushing
> > for a design, composite, that is all backing store all the time means
> > one of three things : lazyness, incompetence, or a big honking design
> > issue in the s
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:55:09PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> Write an application that understands that backing store is an
> optimization that the server may not actually honor, and no pain would
> have ever befallen you.
You could say the exact same thing of pixmaps. After all, an
implemen
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Fontconfig-using apps do not crash for lack of fonts, because
> fontconfig has built-in font substitution
Nice theory. Kinda breaks down when you find out that
pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_char_width answers 0 on such a
subt
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:47:23PM -0500, Marc Ferland wrote:
> Seems like the modeline is adjusted by the driver _even_ if I specified the
> LVDSFixedMode "false" option. I really don't know what to do next... How can
> I force my modeline to the driver?
You can't. Looking at the code, there i
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:02:33PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Layout and language are closely related. Basically for a globalized
> user that types in multiple languages, you have two situations :
> 1. If his current layout is sufficient for the other language, he will
> perform a language shi
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> I hope that when XI and XKB are reworked a "language" property will be
> added to the protocol.
>
> Right now many apps try to infer the language being written from the
> xkb layout in use (for on the fly spellchecking, activation
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:05:24PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
>
> Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 13:44, Olivier Galibert a écrit :
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:40:57PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> As usual, people who care about something are free to
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:40:57PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> As usual, people who care about something are free to maintain it in
> good shape, since this is how free software works.
What is there to maintain, exactly?
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> BTW now that almost all the X userspace has been converted to use
> fontconfig and modern TrueType/OpenType fonts, I expect the level of
> attention fonts in legacy bitmap format receive to drop sharply, which
> will ultimately lead
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