bug#43148: 27.1; Widget text seems to disappear when building with Cairo and Xaw

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 02 Sep 2020 06:24:12 -0400, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> said:

>>>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    RP> I can understand that, but nobody is stepping up to e.g. make Lucid
    RP> work well on HiDPI screens, so it will become increasingly
    RP> irrelevant.

    James> why?

    James> for emacs, higher dpi mostly just means larger fonts.

No it means "why canʼt I read the text in Emacs on my new HiDPI
monitor, everything else adapts automatically. What do you mean I have
to reconfigure Emacs to use larger fonts?"

    James> if images ever need scaling, that should not be hard to do in emacs
    James> itself.

    James> gtk is horrid.  (1 was ok; it only went downhill when novel got
    James> involved, and that trend has continued.)

What alternative is there?

    James> and the push for hb+cxr over m17n+xft means xaw(3d) w/ cairo should
    James> become more and more common.

Iʼm not sure I see the connection there.

Robert