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From: dams@×××.fr
To: gentoo-desktop-research@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:26:37
Message-Id: m21xtljvao.fsf@krotkine.idm.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:
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3 > On Thursday 09 October 2003 23:29, foser wrote:
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5 >> Only fontconfig and freetype influence font rendering. And fontconfig
6 >> probably plays the major role in seting things up.
7 >>
8 > Did you ever see how earlier versions of qt misrendered things? The 3.2
9 > version is the first one that probably can use fontconfig fonts without them
10 > being available through the core protocol. In this respect pango/gtk/gnome
11 > are much better.
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13 Are now qt and gnome/pango technically ok to use correctly fontconfig fonts? If
14 yes, we can concentrate on this, because other technology qhould desappear in
15 middle/long term.
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