Re: GNUstep back: won't compile with art support

[Sascha Erni, .rb]

Hi Fred,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> There was a patch by Derek Zhou to speed up AA drawing for xlib about a 
> year ago. As AA was not widely used, I did not apply it at that time. If 
> you are interested I could polish up that patch and apply it.

Na, no need to bother--the art backend is what it's supposed to be like, 
for anti-aliased fonts. Either I get that running or I'll live without 
them in GNUstep. Using two patches (or one patch plus code changes by 
hand) to get xlib to use anti-aliased fonts, running at sensible speeds 
and with the right font sizes ... I don't think a lot of people will 
give that a shot considering art is available--and most people I know 
don't like anti-aliased fonts anyway. ;) Thanks for the offer, though, 
it's much appreciated.

One question remains, mind--libfreetype versions that art compiles just 
fine with may become deprecated sooner or later. Is the art backend 
still maintained? Or will GNUstep use different means of providing 
anti-aliased fonts in the future, e.g. XFT2 à la the next Window Maker?

Have fun,
-Sascha.rb

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