Re: Draining the font swamp

2007-05-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:52:46AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > - Xfont, which provides font services (including selection and rendering) > > through the X server. This is basically obsolete in favour of client-side > > fonts. > > Why is this? Client side fonts are

Unified and global mapping of input device events to actions

2007-05-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! A while ago I explored the idea of configuring keyboard shortcuts, mouse actions and similar on a system-wide level. For more consistency, far reaching customization, to make alternative input devices available everywhere and possibly as accessibility and localisation feature. Interest

RFC: New MOTU Mentoring process

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, thanks everybody for the comments I got so far. I updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/NewMentoring with all the information until now and would like to do a final call for comments before we get this process rolling. I also created the https://launchpad.net/~motu-mentoring-recep