Re: [Nautilus-list] Freetype2 in Gnome2?

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 11:44, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

And along with the GMarkup stuff in GtkLabel, we will be able to remove
a -lot- of code from Eel, and I think everyone agrees that's a good idea
and be consistent with the rest of the desktop.

Joe