Re: Long-term survival

Ben> It's always annoyed me that Bill took the "shortcut" of just Ben> copying huge amounts of code rather than doing the Ben> abstraction work To be fair, if he'd done the abstraction work, I never would have allowed GTK into 21.4. I don't know whether he would have done the work for 21.5; he was pretty keen on getting it into the release. He also faced pretty tight constraints from Bob Weiner. I don't really regret risking it for GTK, but that experience is one of the reasons I'm being so anal-retentive about Xft. Ben> Cleaning up the widgets is one of my long-term goals (another Ben> workspace I have contains a fair amount of widget work) but Ben> it will take awhile. Can you post something, designs or even just half-baked code? Something absolutely has to be done about design before the Xft code can go in, because of the problem that Xft has to coexist with core fonts in widgets where we don't "own" (or don't want to own) the code. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.