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

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

+1 for that from here as well. I am using the glib-2/gtk-2 seriens on a sparc
machine with solaris as well. Getting the xrender stuff to work is quite a
p.i.t.a. here. So please don't deprecate thsi too quick.

Stefan

Nix N. Nix wrote:
> 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.
>
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