From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cairo now default?
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:01:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736bzwx92.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21rrjkcw8.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:01:59 +0100")
>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:49:46 +0000, Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> said:
>>> Itʼs better than the alternative, which is libXft, which is
>>> unmaintained and causes crashes.
Colin> Ok, so be it.
Colin> I still think this change, as it stands, is going to catch
Colin> out a fair number of users. We will see.
> Why? Xft and Cairo should have the same font support, apart from
> bitmap fonts. Only people who've messed with font-backend might
> have issues, and there should be not be too many of those.
I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example, although
Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz dev library, Debian
8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does seem that old.
Best wishes,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-28 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-28 10:13 cairo now default? Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 11:21 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 11:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 11:49 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 12:01 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 13:01 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-01-28 13:09 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 14:44 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 15:09 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 15:27 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 15:14 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 16:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 16:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 16:47 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 16:55 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 17:02 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-28 17:32 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-28 17:43 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-29 8:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 10:11 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2020-01-29 10:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 18:44 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 17:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 20:33 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-29 11:21 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 14:07 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 13:10 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 20:06 ` James Cloos
2020-01-29 8:45 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-01-28 14:58 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 6:53 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-01-29 10:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-02-01 15:42 ` Problems with SourceCodeVariable [Re: " Madhu
2020-02-03 9:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-02-04 6:14 ` Tassilo Horn
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