On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Peter Howkins wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:20:16AM +0000, Anthony Perkins wrote: >> Some applications do not support anti-aliased fonts at all, and some >> crash if they do not have a bitmapped font specified. This commit >> enables anti-aliasing by default and includes individual rules for >> dtmail and dtpad to prevent them from crashing at startup. >> >> So far it has only been tested on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3. > > Unfortuanately I don't think this patch should go straight in; XFT fonts > on CDE is going to need a bit of thought. > > 1) It always needs to be optional > a) Because XFT fonts are only available on openmotif 2.3 or later, but > CDE (should) compile against any 2.1.30 or newer. > b) Because of user-choices due to preference of the old fonts, e.g. due > to performance of non-XFT fonts over remote X connections. I agree strongly with Peter, especially on 1b. One of the draws of some of the older DE/TKs is that they are eminently more usable for those of us using remote X and/or really old hardware. Anti-aliased fonts look pretty, but they have a non-trivial performance impact in both of these cases. Plus, I don't think that "anti-aliased, modern LnF" is what people expect or necessarily want when they choose CDE... ;) -R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
