[openbox] Fireworks

[Ben Jansens]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:39:14AM -0400, Scott Moynes wrote:
> * Alexander Volovics (awol at home.nl) wrote:
> > Indeed, as far as I know only RH-8.0 has switched to Xft2/fontconfig.
> > 
> > But it is already in XFree86-CVS, Gnome2-CVS, Ximian-gnome-CVS.
> > qt-3.1 and gtk+-2.0.5 support it and all recent Gtk apps (abiword,
> > galeon, gftp, etc). So you are going to encounter it sooner than later.
> > (if you use Debian it is definitely going to be later {^_-})
> > 
> > It makes installing and configuring freetype fonts almost as easy as dropping
> > them into, for example, ~/.fonts and you get "client side fonts" not the
> > wooden X server variety. (no more messing around with something like xftconfig).
> > 
> 
> Well, first, since I run Debian stable, it would be a pain to develop. Also, 
> the number of people have been unable to configure "AA text" properly, and 
> blame openbox is astounding. To venture into having 3 separate font rendering
> paths would cause me to pull my hair out trying to write documentation and
> support users. I will look into what others have done, but until I can
> easily install it, I don't think I'll actually be able to develop for xft2.
> That said, if anyone has patches, they'll happily live in a CVS branch, and
> I'd love to have them.

ts pretty easy to install. Grab the tgzs off keithp's site. I've got
it installed on my machine. It eve comes with an updated version of
Xrender! :)

Ben
-- 
I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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