Re: XFT fonts
Hey, I recognize this conversation! It's the one where I end up depressed. :-(
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Mats Lidell writes:
> >>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > There isn't, really. [...]
>
> But it can't be a monolith. There ought to be minimal set of things
> that must be in place and redisplay can't be one of those, or!?
By your standard ("does what 21.4 does"), getting antialiased fonts
working reasonably well is not in the minimal set.
I still think that a 21.6 release based on the current code base is
doable within one month. Sorry about the anti-aliased fonts. They're
a work in progress. You can either build without 'em or live with the
hair and/or provide a patch. We'll fix them in a 21.7 release.
In my opinion, though, it is. I believe that without Xft/Pango/GTK+
quality fonts we won't get any new users, in which case a public
release can only hurt our reputation for quality (such as it is at
this point, but why make it worse?)
We don't have a reputation - we're irrelevant. I accepted that awhile
ago, but I just don't like feeling helplessly irrelevant.
That's only an opinion; if put to a vote, I'd probably vote
against,
but I would obey the majority if they say to do 21.6 with whatever
we've got right now.
- Vin
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