Re: [Nautilus-list] Freetype2 in Gnome2?

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro fateware com>]

Id like to help with the transition from the current smooth text hackery 
to using the new stuff.  However, for sanity I'd like to first see the 
current stuff working in Nautilus.  This should be no problem once 
Nautilus itself runs under GNOME2.

-re

Alex Larsson wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
>
> > on 10/23/01 8:44 AM, Alex Larsson at alexl redhat com wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> No it doesn't, it can only render into server-side X images (called 
> Picture). 
>
> But fear not! There is the PangoFT2 module that uses freetype to render 
> (fully client side). This is used by the gnome-canvas text items, GtkFB, 
> etc.
>
> / Alex