> > What is there to maintain, exactly? > > Fonts are not generated out of thin hair and they need to be updated > to keep up with the environment.
Only if you keep breaking the environment carelessly. > Environment changes can be changes in encoding standards (unicode is > still evolving and even low-level hardware stuff such as USB > identifiers uses unicode), changes in font formats (use the same And not many USB devices have description strings in linear-B so why does it matter. > format as everyone else if you want to tap in the common maintenance > pool), changes in hardware capabilities (hardware pixel density is not > a physical constant and any change there invalidates the existing pool > of bitmap fonts). All non issues. In case you've not noticed every time you use a vectorised font you turn it into a bitmap to suit a changing variety of hardware and encodings. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg