X in FC7

Michel Salim michel.salim at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 00:57:59 UTC 2006


On 11/10/06, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > Long term, what would be really nice, is if someone figured
> > out a way to implement core fonts using fontconfig/Xft
> > underneath so we have one font system, and it provides
> > legacy compatibility to ancient applications that have not
> > been updated to modern interfaces.  That is something that
> > would need to be spearheaded at the X.Org level rather than
> > at a specific distribution however.
>
> That said, which apps care about core fonts these days?  Would it make
> sense to just build-in a fixed font or something and let everything
> else use fontconfig (as most decent apps do these days)?
>
Emacs. But hopefully Emacs 22, which has a GTK-only build option, will
be in Core 7.

> And does the new Emacs still require libXaw or is a gtk-only build
> possible?  If so, dropping Xaw would only mean losing xterm (a pain,
> but there are lots of alternatives available, but only one Emacs).
>

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim

Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts
avoiding you.
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