Re: PangoXft and PangoFT2 patch from hell
- From: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>
- To: Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- Cc: <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: PangoXft and PangoFT2 patch from hell
- Date: 17 Nov 2001 16:56:24 +0100
Hi,
Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
> Here is a patch that adds some generic font aliasing support to Pango. It
> also has code for the Xft backend to support font-aliases from the Xft
> config files. It also contains a rewrite of the pangoft2 backend to use
> the same config file format as the Xft backend so that you will always get
> the same fonts in Xft and FT2. The PangoFT2 internal API is also
> simplified because it doesn't have to do fontsets.
>
> The minixft.tar.gz tarball must be unpacked in $SRC/pango/mini-xft, and
> contains a copy of Xft without X dependencies.
I don't see the benefits of this approach and don't like the idea of
wrapping Pango closely around Xft. I also don't see how the Xft config
files are better than the FT2 alias files we have now. Because of this
I fear that MiniXft adds (unneeded?) overhead and won't help to make
GTK+-FB or GTK+-DirectFB a lightweight library for embedded devices.
But then I guess you have good reasons for making this change. It would
probably help if you could explain them further.
Apart from that, I don't see any problems for The GIMP's new text tool
related to this change. There hasn't been much work put into it yet
and I wouldn't even object if I had to rewrite it from scratch.
Salut, Sven
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