Re: chart label alternate font

Bill Wilson <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:26:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:01:38 -0500
Bill Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The reason for the difference in chart and panel text/color handling is that when gtk went
> to Pango, that was used for the panels.  Text on charts is typically updated much more
> frequently and is superimposed on chart pixmap data so that did not move to Pango for
> performance reasons (I always want gkrellm to run well on slower machines).

Actually, as I dust off the memory banks, it was as much or more that I couldn't see a
good way to have Pango markup for chart text and still have the embedded positional
formatting feature to be able to put text where you want on a chart.

Bill