Re: Say goodbye to core X fonts

[Albert Chin <gtk-devel-list thewrittenword com>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:53:03AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 11:48, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > For the time being, we often simply find that our supported platforms are
> > simply not considered at all by the Gtk+ maintainers (e.g. Solaris 2.5.1)
> 
> I'm not sure what "not considered at all" means. I typically don't
> consider *any* platform at all other than the ones I develop
> on unless someone submits a bug report or fix.
> 
> Solaris 2.5.1 is sort of "special" because it it X11R5 based.
> Since X11R6 is almost a teenager now (coming up on its 9th
> birthday), I am pretty tempted to declare that GTK+ simply
> doesn't work with X11R5.
> 
> But the changes are pretty trivial
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110523 has a patch,
> though I'd do it differently), so most likely we'll just fix it
> for 2.2.2.

How should I do it?

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)