Polite newbie: font anti-aliasing or smoothing

[John Fremlin <vii altern org>]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have the GDK do font anti-aliasing or
just plain smudging?

As far as I can see this would at minimum only involve changing gdk_draw_string,
gdk_draw_text, and gdk_draw_text_wc to use a smootho font drawing
procedure instead of XDrawString. Is this correct? Has it been done
before, and if not why not?

Sorry if this is a FAQ - I couldn't find a way to search the list
archives. 
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