From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master d8da850: Document cairo-related fallout to font-backend settings Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:05:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20200120162048.23970.80216@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20200120162050.08A5421148@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="42523"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emacs developers , Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 20 22:06:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iteFz-000AqU-Pl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:06:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44154 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iteFy-0006V4-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iteEx-0005RN-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iteEr-0005kV-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:05:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pj1-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:51830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iteEr-0005kB-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pj1-f41.google.com with SMTP id d15so294293pjw.1 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:05:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=oZ/U8vRBkwe7Qi/UiGDaJgiSspaKks7RxHXgUxZVxy0=; b=SFai3tya7H4+Vb6x58S/SeGDqA6pW3tY8GpnX5r7cPUeDf4p8Y1gxB6DnREeXJ3Wpp xvfpwwPOd3rinsvJvKj0dJHxNhLfXM/Wo/UfVi740bzG/dodP/eUmIKj3WIKJ5k+KOmz ea/zhEs6rc7mUgtceb3OiclZE+HhT9Rm6wlTPXS/+BirkVXX7ygdsk+BXnKAppzaiI4k o82y0rb+bfaw3j6jaAiWpaWjSTDy8kcfv/aJnFYsbbt32j8kVXgZ4U6AdUIodKTipbJ4 ShFz9GZSLcDYg0LfJAa6CGPA0RBs8czSy7R5r0qibdR3+Qk4rqMZcU5dE5ohYCW1Ti0m TQvQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUtN1//VUBibERx3DCcrB07sw6Ak7ci6wlmk3Apf7UxIt7vyv79 1i1brt/hrdX61qQzoNsbdCmDd/sY9fcVqHELndrXjg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyoI3CODmajoczSsnjDMFoezYUrbb3UPTZyqyUg9Wt0ONcCoqDkEJrFu8YdOBhcMQpL70kUJo4Cjv4sNMEzINU= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:a409:: with SMTP id y9mr1010575pjp.119.1579554335872; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:05:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20200120162050.08A5421148@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244441 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: > +Note also that 'FontBackend' settings in .Xdefaults or .Xresources, or > +'font-backend' frame parameter settings in your init files, may need > +to be adjusted, as 'xft' is no longer a valid backend when using > +Cairo. Use either 'ftcr' or 'ftcrhb' instead for FreeType and > +FreeType + HarfBuzz respectively. 'x' is still a valid backend. Should we say that FreeType + Harfbuzz is probably the correct choice for most users, and perhaps also why? My concern is that people might default to the shorter option and we could see unnecessary bug reports about incorrect composition, etc. Best regards, Stefan Kangas