Re: [Nautilus-list] Render support using XFree >=4.0.2

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 1/31/01 3:18 PM, Moses Lei at mlei symphony dhs org wrote:

> If I understand correctly, Nautilus uses libart to draw antialiased text.
> Now that XFree 4.0.2 is out, with the render work by Keith Packard, it
> seems that using Render to draw antialiased text would go much faster than
> loading libart to do it. Would it be possible for this to be an option?
> I'm not really knowledgable on this so I'd appreciate any insight on this,
> as well as the merits or lack thereof of such an approach.

We won't do this for 1.0. But we might do it in a later version of Nautilus.
Specifically, we are likely to do this through GDK when GDK is udpated to
use the Xrender stuff, presumably as part of the GNOME 2.0 release.

    -- Darin