From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Julius Pfrommer <julius.pfrommer@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 16:09:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB452642F6D372076743A4E4C796BB0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200517124125.000013a4@web.de> (Julius Pfrommer's message of "Sun, 17 May 2020 12:41:25 +0200")
Julius Pfrommer <julius.pfrommer@web.de> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> during the recent discussion on "Emacs being too square", I recalled a
> few projects that use OpenGL for terminal emulators [1,2]. With good
> performance, smooth scrolling and the possibility to add more visual
> *bling*.
>
> I had a good look at Emacs' code-base to see if similar approaches
> could be used. As you can imagine, I got lost in a forest of #ifdef for
> different platforms and GUI toolkits. The code looks scary to touch. If
> you don't have access to *all supported platform*, it is likely that
> changes break a platform you could not test locally.
I have been looking into same, some time ago and recently, and I
experience same problem. A forest of cases, all coded into same place in
giant files of 5K+ lines :-).
> To make the code-base less scary, there should be more code-sharing
> across GUI platforms. And this is indeed possible!
Emacs and Emacs src could benefit of some modularization and refactoring
definitely.
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2020-05-17 10:41 Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY) Julius Pfrommer
2020-05-17 14:09 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-05-17 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 15:06 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 16:50 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 14:59 ` Julius Pfrommer
2020-05-17 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 16:28 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-17 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 18:50 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-17 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 16:08 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 16:45 ` tomas
2020-05-18 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 17:05 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18 17:18 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 19:19 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-18 19:25 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-18 19:41 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-18 20:20 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-18 19:33 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 19:44 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 2:25 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 2:44 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 13:59 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 14:35 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 15:21 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 15:44 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 16:15 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 15:36 ` Ligatures Tassilo Horn
2020-05-19 16:08 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 16:14 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-19 3:47 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-19 4:51 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 19:38 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 14:55 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-19 15:30 ` Ligatures Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 15:52 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-18 17:24 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-18 17:41 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 19:07 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-18 19:17 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 20:33 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18 17:31 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 19:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 19:18 ` tomas
2020-05-18 20:37 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18 21:59 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Alan Third
2020-05-19 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 14:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-19 21:43 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-20 1:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20 2:07 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-20 7:14 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) tomas
2020-05-20 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 17:31 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 18:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 18:53 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 23:19 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-21 10:01 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Pip Cet
2020-05-21 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-21 16:26 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-21 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-21 20:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-21 21:16 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-22 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 9:25 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-22 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 12:52 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-22 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 13:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 14:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 19:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 20:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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2020-05-23 14:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-23 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 16:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 13:56 ` Pip Cet
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[not found] ` <834ks7110w.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-23 11:24 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-05-23 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83eerb145r.fsf@gnu.org>
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[not found] ` <831rnb0zld.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-23 12:36 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-23 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 15:13 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-23 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 22:38 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-24 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-26 18:13 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-26 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-27 9:36 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-27 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-27 18:42 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-27 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 21:29 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-24 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 12:47 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-23 13:10 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 13:45 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-23 14:12 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-23 13:36 ` Ligatures 조성빈
2020-05-23 14:15 ` Ligatures Stefan Monnier
2020-05-23 14:37 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-22 11:44 ` Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 13:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 14:32 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-22 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-21 21:06 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-22 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 9:34 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-22 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 20:26 ` Alan Third
2020-05-19 10:09 ` Trevor Spiteri
2020-05-19 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 5:43 ` Ligatures ASSI
2020-05-19 7:22 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-19 7:55 ` Ligatures Joost Kremers
2020-05-19 8:07 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-19 10:17 ` Ligatures Yuri Khan
2020-05-19 14:26 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 19:00 ` Ligatures Yuri Khan
2020-05-19 10:43 ` Ligatures Werner LEMBERG
2020-05-19 10:48 ` Ligatures tomas
2020-05-19 14:18 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 14:52 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 15:11 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-19 15:36 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 16:16 ` Ligatures Pip Cet
2020-05-19 16:41 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 17:00 ` Ligatures Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 18:28 ` Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY) Julius Pfrommer
2020-05-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 22:28 ` chad
2020-05-18 22:08 ` Alan Third
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