Re: [Nautilus-list] Freetype2 in Gnome2?

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 10/19/01 10:31 PM, Peter Snyder at kafer77a ameritech net wrote:

> Perhaps this is an obvious question, but once the freetype2 rendering
> system is dropped and GTK2 will nativly do AA text, can one expect a
> increase in speed, since there is less overhead?

Possibly.

I don't see how gtk's antialiased text is any more "native" than the stuff
used in Nautilus was. But we can hope that it's done better and is faster
(and maybe superior in other ways too). We'll see when we finish the port.

    -- Darin