Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 01.03.2005 um 01:56 schrieb Marvin Dickens:

> > >   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).

I must admit, that I do not notice any difference. In fact, I don't 
care. I was able to read text, when characters were displayed using 5x7 
pixels, I still am able to read my text on the X11 display. Don't get 
me wrong, I do not mind, if this is possible, but I do not want to be 
forced to do so.

And IMHO thinge are implemented badly wrong, Font rendering has to be 
done by the X server, not the application. This is the way X11 works. 
If we give up the X11 philosophy part by part, what reasons are there 
to keep X11 at all? X11 does have lots of disatvantages, I hope noone 
forces us to give up its advantages.


> > > 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.

Noone argues, that the application should be written in a way, that it 
is impossible to use all this modern, bandwith and cpu time consuming 
stuff (in german, I would call it Plüsch), but it should be possilbe to 
leave if off, and this decision should be left to the person compiling 
the program.

73, Mario
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