> > 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. Thing is, rendering modern fonts poses unique problems and is a fairly specialized area of programming. It's as much of an art as it is a science. Poorly written font engines display jagged, fuzzy and otherwise bad representations of glyphs. Years ago, in the pre XFT days, your typical X desktop in Linux looked like sh!t. Now, Linux/*NIX users take good font rendering for granted (Thanks to XFT). >> That would cut the number of dependencies down to > > something manageable, and it would restore portability. IMHO, This is not a portability issue. But, even if you look at it this way, portability at the cost of making the app look like and feel like it was developed and written for a system in 1988 is a poor trade off for 99.8 % of the user base of PCB. Best regards Marvin Dickens
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