Re: Heads up on Pango HEAD
- From: Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR>
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>, Erwann Chenede <Erwann Chenede Sun COM>, gtk-devel-list gnome org, otaylor redhat com, gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Heads up on Pango HEAD
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:29:34 -0700
Around 21 o'clock on Jun 5, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> Giving the choice to people who do not have top end boxes or systems
There's nothing inherantly expensive about moving fonts from inside the X
server to inside the X client. In many ways, it's more efficient and it
provides better memory management than is easily possible with core X text
requests. Xft builds glyphs and metrics as needed, unlike the core
protocol which must render every glyph before the first can be drawn on the
screen.
> to use existing configurations without having to install dozens of
> additional packages and fight against the burden of porting and adapting
The dependency adventures are temporary; as the new libraries become a
standard part of every X installation this extra burden will disappear.
I've tried to make the burden as small as possible while providing new
functionality.
XFree86 will provide a complete implementation of Xft for all supported
systems without dependencies beyond those required today; I expect other
distributions that intend on supporting Gnome applications will do the
same.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]