Re: Parsing of fontconfig font names and other font related stuff.

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Jan Djärv skrev:
> Yavor Doganov skrev:
>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>> I'm in the process of getting Emacs to use GConf defaults for font, 
>>> antialiasing, hints and dpi.
>>
>> Are you sure this is a good idea?  AFAIK there are plans to deprecate
>> GConf for GNOME 3.0 next year, and replace it with dconf/GSettings.
>> The precise plan is not clear yet, I think.
> 
> Well, if it isn't clear, we must work with what we have :-)
> Yes I think it is a good idea.  As I said in my reply to Handa-san, the 
> dpi values used by Emacs and other Gnome applications doesn't match, so 
> Emacs looks different even if it uses the same font.
> 
> It would also be nice to have Emacs use the same hinting and 
> antialiasing as other applications.  We get a free GUI for setting these 
> things (Gnome desktop preferences).  It is somewhat cumbersome to set 
> these in Emacs now.

It seems XSettings is much further along than I thought.  So basically GConf 
is out and XSettings is in (well, working on it anyway).

	Jan D.