Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> > I've built GTK+ on Solaris 8 / SPARC, it does work but will require
> > some thought since the Solaris Xserver doesn't support the same set of
> > extensions that the Xfree86 server does (Xrender). So you typically
> > run into trouble building freetype and related stuff though.
>
> I must admit, that I do no tunderstand, why a basic GUI toolkit is 
> required to be able to to TrueType and Type1 font processing. We are 
> not building a word processor.

  Yes, it is ridiculous for GTK+ to *require* fancy font-handling 
techniques for applications that do not require them.  Doing TrueType 
fonts and antialiasing for menu choice is just plain excessive.

  Especially when it means the application will only run under Linux.

  I think the situation would be much better if GTK+ were able to be 
built either with or without Pang/XFT/Xrender/etc, and just use X's 
regular font system.  That would cut the number of dependencies down to 
something manageable, and it would restore portability.

            -Dave

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