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 13:10:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2trvi8x.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736bzwx92.fsf@yandex.com> (Colin Baxter's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:01:29 +0000")
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>> 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.
Colin> I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example,
Colin> although Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz
Colin> dev library, Debian 8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does
Colin> seem that old.
Colin> Best wishes,
To me, Debian 8.11 does not seem that old
Forgot the not!
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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
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 [this message]
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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