RE: so, is this claim about pango still true? or does nobody actually care?
- From: "Robert Thorpe" <Robert Thorpe antenova com>
- To: "Petr Tomasek" <tomasek etf cuni cz>, <gtk-list gnome org>
- Cc:
- Subject: RE: so, is this claim about pango still true? or does nobody actually care?
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:12:03 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-list-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:gtk-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Petr Tomasek
> Sent: 25 October 2005 11:56
> To: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: so,is this claim about pango still true? or does
> nobody actually care?
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:47:38AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> > On 10/14/05, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> > >
> > > is this still true? does anybody care? is there a way to
> avoid pango
> > > entirely and still get AA fonts inside GTK2? will this
> ever be fixed
> > > before everyone is using h/w acceleration to print button labels?
> >
> > If you don't actually need any of the fancy features Pango
> provides,
> > bi-directional text, paragraphs and whatnot, you might just as well
>
> Rendering international text is not fancy, it's basic feature!
>
> > use Xft2 directly. It requires a bit more code, but with
> the Nokia 770
> > VKB implementation we measured roughly 50% reduction in the time it
> > takes to redraw the whole layout (buttons with single-character
> > labels)
>
> It's sad, You're creating crapy applications, that cannot be
> used with arabic or hebrew, etc. :-(
It depends on your purpose.
If you're writing a small application with a fairly limited audience
then rendering international text is irrelevant.
For example I'm writing a small program at present only I and maybe a
hundred others at the most will use. I will probably never even find
someone who wants it to work in another language than english, let alone
anyone to give me translations.
If your writing a big app like a word processor then it's a useful thing
to have.
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