Re: Gtk+ 1.3.10

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Daniel Egger <degger fhm edu> writes:

> Hija,
> 
> I just gave it a spin and it looks really good so far.
> So for the database, it runs on a Ti PowerBook
> (powerpc-(suse|unknown)-linux) compiled with gcc 2.95.3,
> glibc 2.2.3, XFree86 4.1.0.
> 
> Now for the nits: 
> - The appearance in some fields is still not as crunchy as it
>   used to be; some of the stock icons are still from the stoneage
>   and look like crap and really don't fit to the absolutely great
>   new ones; I'd rather prefer not having them (the old ones) at all.
>   Is there a simple way to turn them off at all BTW? Also is it
>   a wise idea to use a fixedpixel format instead of SVG?

Do you happen to have a 500 line xml/svg parser and svg renderer
sitting around? Didn't think so.
 
> - xft support is way to crashy, it crashes reproducible on a freshly
>   started test-gtk on more than 25% of the menu entries and also on
>   a few selected operations like opening the font-selector twice.
>   This is really a showstopper since antialised fonts are considered
>   to be quite important nowadays. Unfortunately I have no clue about the
>   Render extension so I don't even know where to look for problems, if
>   someone is interested in fixing please feel free to contact me.

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50214

Regards,
                                        Owen