Re: Pango support for X fonts (Was: Re: How to use X fonts in my GTK appication?)

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On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:19, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Pango no longer supports core X fonts, the only backend (on X, anyway)
> is xft nowadays. So whatever you do to pangox.alias file, it's not going
> to have any effect on pango

This is very unfortunate, especially when you try to install gtk+-2.4
into your home directory, on a machine where you don't have root
access.  Pango should be able to fall back to whatever fonts are
available, because not every X server in the world has the "Render"
extension, and not every X server in the world is XFree86 or X.org,
complete with Xft2.

By restricting pango to xft fonts, you (whoever disabled X fonts in
pango) have basically prevented gtk+-2.4 from being available on a wide
variety of systems with lder X servers, including our Solaris server,
where gtk+-2.2 worked fine, but not 2.4. IOW, gtk+ is now only as good
as your X setup.

I would personally be very grateful to see somebody "put the X back into
pango", as it were, so I can use the latest and greatest gtk+ on our
Solaris machines.