Re: [Nautilus-list] Freetype2 in Gnome2?

[Abe Fettig <abe fettig net>]

Darin,

As I understand it, Xft should work transparently for all text in Gtk widgets, including text in the cavas.

I am currently using the gdkxft library that adds Xft/Render support to Gtk 1.2.  If I uncheck the "Use smooth graphics" option in Nautilus, icons will no longer have alpha blending, but fonts will still be anti-aliased thanks to the X server. 

Screenshot at http://www.fettig.net/images/nautilus-xft.png

Abe

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 12:07, Darin Adler wrote:
> on 10/23/01 8:44 AM, Alex Larsson at alexl redhat com wrote:
> 
> > Gtk+ uses the Xft extension for it's AA text rendering. This is a X
> > extension implemented by the server. On some/most hardware, glyph
> > renderering is accelerated, so it is probably faster.
> 
> Ah. I didn't realize gtk+ was already using Xft. I thought that was just a
> potential future optimization.
> 
> I'm worried now. Does Xft work for rendering into the canvas buffer? This
> may complicate the Nautilus porting process.
> 
>     -- Darin
> 
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