Re: [Gnome-print] some RH merge

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 30 Sep 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

 Hi, 


> 
> "Sergey V. Udaltsov" <sergey.oudaltsov@clients.ie> writes:
> 
> > > Not extremely clean, but best that can be done at moment IMHO.
> > > What do you think?
> > All this is really cool. But what about XLFD(s) (or at least some parts
> > of them) in fontmap files? Do we have a chance to get WYSIWYG under
> > GNOME someday (definitely, I mean the version 0.30:)?
> 
> You won't get anything close to wsywig trying to match XLFD's to
> client side postscript fonts. The only way that this is going
> to be gotten even close to right is to use the same client fonts
> for rendering on screen and on the printer; this means unifying
> the GNOME print configuration mechanism with the Xft configuration
> mechanism.
> 
> No, that won't happen for 0.30, but anything else is just fooling
> around and not worth potential breakage.

 Guys, would you apply my
sed -e 's/gdk_font_load/gdk_fontset_load/g' gnome-rfont.c
 patch? Or should I commit it myself?

 I beg you to include it in 0.30 - GP is SIMPLY BROKEN without it.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad