Excerpts from Ethan Grammatikidis's message of 2010-09-01 19:00:17 +0200: > Connor Lane Smith wrote: > > If someone were to write a simple clean xft patch for libdraw it could > > be useful, perhaps even integrated into mainline. > This may just be my limited perspective, or it may be my upset stomach > talking, but I'm very surprised to see xft seriously suggested in this > mailing list. Xft is (to me) synonymous with the transition of X.org > from something bad but usable into a black box nightmare best left to > distro tools to cope with. Maybe it wasn't so bad for other people, > maybe it got better.
I can't comment on the code complexity, but I do wish there was support for proportional fonts and other typographical niceties in terminal/ncurses apps. Not directly related to Xft I guess, but longer texts (email/rss feeds...) in monospace look rather unpleasant. It would be awesome if swk could reconcile the simplicity and efficiency of suckless tools with some basic regard for typography. --
