On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:26:52PM +0600, Eon S. Jeon wrote: > I think fontconfig is to blame here. It?s what st is using to find fallbacks. > It?s just that we don?t want such highly sophisticated fallback mechanism. We > all love simple infallible code, so that we can always blame users. ;) > > (Note that we still need fontconfig for loading and configuring fonts. It > still makes our lives easier.) > > Also, I believe freetype is essential. st has one visual component and that?s > text. st should render it good. At least that?s what people will consider > suck-less.
We can go to simple x fonts, is much simpler. Suckless is about simplicity of the code.
