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 bad for several reasons: 1) You end up with the mess you point out, where you have several different client side font systems. 2) That leads to code that is harder to maintain and configure and troubleshoot. 3) Performance suffers. The X server is in the best position to render fonts using any hardware acceleration provided by the video card, and allows for those fonts to be shared by all applications, reducing duplication and waste. Also for remote X sessions, you want the fonts rendered on the server so much less data needs exchanged between the client and server. Other than the fact that the client side implementations have advanced beyond the X server ones in recent times, is there any advantage to client side font rendering over server side? If not, then we should push to bring the client side advancements back into the server where font rendering belongs. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
