Re: [Nautilus-list] X 4.0.2 and the Render Extension

[Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>]

> Now that XFree86 4.0.2 is out which includes the Render extension
> allowing anti-aliases text and images to be drawn, and GTK is currently
> working towards using this extension if it is available, does Nautilus
> need to do lots of it's own anti-aliasing?  Surely much of the code can
> be ripped out and left to GTK to do?

Yeah, but don't count on it. GTK 2.0 will definitely have support for it,
and while GTK 1.2 might even get it, right now the only distro that has an
X server with the Render extension built in is Debian. Since a flurry of
recent distributions released new versions (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake),
don't expect a new release with 4.0.2 for a while. And if Nautilus wants
to retain the AA text all of the time, they'll probably leave the code in
until most of the users have a Render-enabled X server.

Joe