RE: Pango support for X fonts (Was: Re: How to use X fonts in my GTK appication?)

["Tom Liu" <tom liu flextrade com>]

My concern is the speed. If I use the pango font, it will be 600 times
slow than I use the X fonts directly. 

For my application, every place I need fast painting, I have to use X
function calls directly. Otherwise noboday will use my program because
it is too slow.

This really brings up problems: In my application, some place is xft
font and some place is X font really looks bad.

Thanks.
Tom
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-
> bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Stefan Kost
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:44 AM
> To: Nix N. Nix
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Pango support for X fonts (Was: Re: How to use X fonts in
my
> GTK appication?)
>
> +1 for that from here as well. I am using the glib-2/gtk-2 seriens on
a
> sparc
> machine with solaris as well. Getting the xrender stuff to work is
quite a
> p.i.t.a. here. So please don't deprecate thsi too quick.
>
> Stefan
>
> Nix N. Nix wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:19, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> >
> > > Pango no longer supports core X fonts, the only backend (on X,
anyway)
> > > is xft nowadays. So whatever you do to pangox.alias file, it's not
going
> > > to have any effect on pango
> >
> >
> > This is very unfortunate, especially when you try to install
gtk+-2.4
> > into your home directory, on a machine where you don't have root
> > access.  Pango should be able to fall back to whatever fonts are
> > available, because not every X server in the world has the "Render"
> > extension, and not every X server in the world is XFree86 or X.org,
> > complete with Xft2.
> >
> > By restricting pango to xft fonts, you (whoever disabled X fonts in
> > pango) have basically prevented gtk+-2.4 from being available on a
wide
> > variety of systems with lder X servers, including our Solaris
server,
> > where gtk+-2.2 worked fine, but not 2.4. IOW, gtk+ is now only as
good
> > as your X setup.
> >
> > I would personally be very grateful to see somebody "put the X back
into
> > pango", as it were, so I can use the latest and greatest gtk+ on our
> > Solaris machines.
> >
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