On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 10:08, Antonis Tsolomitis < antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/22 1:40 AM, Jon Trulson wrote: > > On 12/31/21 6:59 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > > > > Currently UTF-8 is supported but without scalable fonts the possibilities > it provides are very limited. > > > Yes - see my previous email response. > > Preferably someone who knows the details of such things could provide a > hand. Unfortunately, I do not have enough experience in this to provide a > solution. I also do not have enough time to figure it out :) But getting > XFT working and switching to it (and making sure all the app work with it - > like dtterm) would seem to be a necessary first start. > > > I thought that Motif already supported scalable fonts. No? > Yep, since Motif 2.3. I've done a few experiments with the XFT support. Last time in 2019, I had always intended to have another go at it! Here is the info https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/ Here are the issues I found so far. - Need a way to optionally support modern fonts (possibly compile time) - Xresource directives are completely generic not CDE specific - Font 'size' dialog in dtstyle and changing font size in general is not supported - font selectors that -dt-interface lines use don't use multi line resource tweaks like the motif Xresources line, but only one line - Is it even possible to specify a motif XFT font to use with a font selector? - No XFT fonts in dtwm title bars (not plotted via motif but xlib?) - No XFT fonts in dtwm front panel desktop selectors - Font in terminal is complety messed up, possibly due to multibyte issues - Selecting 'Help'->something on many apps causes them to instant seg fault - opening pages in dtinfo causes crash > If these projects could be properly split into pieces then could it be > possible > to be funded by Google Summer Code? > Unfortunately Google Summer of Code people require a heavy level of mentorship and support from project maintainers, as such it's a heavy time commitment from maintainers. However if you know of a student who's interested in doing anything in this area, it could be worth us putting the time in! Peter -- Peter Howkins peter.howk...@marutan.net https://www.marutan.net/
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