From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Xft support (freetype, anti-aliasing) in X11 emacs Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210031855.g93ItUd8024550@stubby.bodenonline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033705509 10251 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 04:25:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 04:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xK1T-0002fD-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:25:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17xKmu-0006a0-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:14:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xK1o-00078J-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xBC5-0000Ai-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xBBy-0000AI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xBBx-0000AC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from pc35.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@pc35.bodenonline.com [195.196.29.227] (may be forged)) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g93ItUd8024550; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:55:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: "from Ami Fischman at Oct 2, 2002 03:27:12 pm" Original-To: Ami Fischman Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8344 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8344 > Hi there, > > Is anyone working on adding Xft/freetype/anti-alias support to emacs? > Equivalently, is there any work being done on a gtk/qt-specific port of the > windowing code? ("equivalent" because both toolkits support Xft natively > in their most recent incarnations (2.0 and 3.0, resp). I'm working on a Gtk port (not much time to spend on this lately, but moving forward somewhat faster this month). But that won't give you anti-alias support "for free". In Gtk at least, it would mean a total conversion of all display code in Emacs to use Gtk primitives for text. This duplication of code is undesirable. Putting in anti-alias code that works with X regardless of toolkit would be nice. > In case the answer to both previous questions is negative, is there a > roadmap description of the emacs source tree or do new developers just jump > in head first? Head first I guess :-) Jan D.