Re: ANN: back-art resources 0.1.1

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/backart/ArtResources- 
> 0.1.1.tar.bz2
> (1.4mb)
>
> Feedback is appreciated.
>
> Issues:
>
> Where should this package be? It would be good to have it as close to
> -back as possible, but it's probably too big to have it in -back
> (uncompressed, Free* is 2.5mb, Vera* 0.5mb).
We could put it in core, but perhaps rename it to something like  
BackResources or SystemResources to make it more general


> makes sense for -xlib, but not for other backends. It would make more
> sense for this code to ask the backend for the default fonts. This way,
> font fallback (in order to find _any_ font usable as the system font)
> can be handled in the backend, which can do better than trying random
> names.
Sounds like a good idea.