Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> > 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.
> X11 is a badly antiquated system.

  Like, say, cars?  Just because something was developed a long time 
ago doesn't mean it's automatically trash.

  x86 is a badly antiquated 30-year-old architecture, yet people still 
buy x86 machines.  (Yeah, bad example, as x86 *should* be left to die, 
but you see my point.)

>   It was developed a long time ago, and changed very little since 
> then.  Many of the things that a windowing system was supposed to do 
> in the 1980s are not needed today.  Many of the things that are 
> expected of a windowing system today were not needed in the 80s.  I 
> think it's quite obvious that a modern OS needs to have antialiased 
> TrueType fonts, but regular X11 does not support them.  What do you 
> suggest should have been done?

  Please forgive me for jumping in, but I think the issue here is 
client-side vs. server-side rendering of fonts.

          -Dave

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