From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: The WHY of Xft [was: Re: Antialiased text on X11] Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:45:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111272330 29209 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 22:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 23:45:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmgf-0000MT-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:44:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmxR-0001dk-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmxH-0001de-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmxG-0001dS-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmxG-0001dP-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.240.156.239] (helo=ore.jhcloos.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DCmht-0007jc-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lugabout.jhcloos.org (host-69-48-10-171.roc.choiceone.net [69.48.10.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "lugabout.jhcloos.org", Issuer "ca.jhcloos.com" (verified OK)) by ore.jhcloos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947801C36A for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:45:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id A775F4D42D2; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:39:14 -0800") X-Hashcash: 0:050319:emacs-devel@gnu.org:bb3dc1f819b8a028 Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34792 It should be pointed out that antialiasing and sub-pixel rendering are just two of the benefits of the client-side font system brought by Xft and friends. The other benefits are just as important. Control and installation of fonts are easier for most users, fonts with large encodings -- such as CJKV fonts or any iso10646-encoded font -- use *much* less vm and data transfer between client and server is reduced for most workloads. Even w/o antialiasing the user's experience improves. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr.