Re: GnomeCanvasText behavioural change

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, David Turner wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Miles Lane a écrit :
> > 
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 10:24, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > >
> > > > This semantic difference makes it very hard to fix the item, and I would
> > > > like to change the AA mode version back to work as it did in 1.4. This
> > > > will remove the (ugly) scaled text feature though, so I guess it is an API
> > > > change that has to be agreed to.
> > >
> > > I'll never understand why one would want to scale text by rendering it
> > > into a bitmap and scaling that.
> > > What should be done is rendering it anti-aliased, at a _very large_ size,
> > > into a greyscale pixbuf, and then translating that. Or maybe render the
> > > text with size = requested_size * zoom_factor
> > 
> > I could be wrong, but it would seem to make sense to include
> > David Turner (the FreeType maintainer) and Kieth Packard (the
> > Render extension developer at XFree86.org) in discussions of
> > font rendering.
> > 
> 
> I appreciate that you sent me this message (and I agree with what Keith
> said by the way). However, I do not clearly understand what problem is
> being talked about here..
> 
> Could someone send me the address of the gnome-2-0-list mailing list
> archive, or a summary of the original thread; just in case where I
> could make a semi-intelligent answer to the problem ??

Sorry about that. Miles got a bit enthusiastic and missunderstood the 
discusssion, so he forwarded it to you.

It was really about a proposed API change in the gnome canvas that needed 
to be agreed to by the gnome 2.0 release team. Nothing you need to answer.

/ Alex