> I have started on Xft support, but it is really something for the release
> after the next, so I don't spend much time on it yet.  I can confirm your
> reasoning, the Emacs font-selection machinery is indeed the most tricky
> part, I have not done that fully, so I can't change font yet.  But part of
> the problem is that the Xft font selection is entirely new compared to the
> old X font selection.

Feel free to put it on an Arch branch somewhere, or a branch in the CVS ;-)

> I am doing an Xft solution, I did not find the talked about Xft branch, so
> I started from scratch.  The main reason for doing this is that I wanted to
> use the GTK file selection dialog, but since that dialog displays all fonts,
> including antialiased, Emacs can currently not use it.

I don't think you wasted your time, but in case you're interested, I've
appended a patch I extracted from that xft branch at some point.  I had some
trouble extracting the patch, so there might be some missing bits and some
unrelated extra bits.  It surely doesn't compile.


        Stefan