Re: some XFree86 5.0 questions...

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:10:17PM -0800, Hideki Hiura wrote:
> >From: [email protected] (Hideki Hiura)
> > > From: Owen Taylor <[email protected]>
> > > But the primary problem here is not the existence of STSF, but the
> > > fact that STSF is (last I checked) _duplicating_ in an incompatible
> > > way the font configuration and matching architecture of fontconfig.
> > I guess you've got a misinformation. STSF has a compatibility
> > layer, which made STSF compatible with fontconfig and xft2.
> 
> I forgot to mention that I have seen an unmodified GNOME desktop running
> with STSF via this comparibility layer; 
> 
> What this means that an unmodified GTK+ recongnizes STSF as xft2/fontconfig.
> 

Are you saying STSF uses fontconfig, or STSF emulates fontconfig?

I would want it to use fontconfig (or use 100% compatible file
locations and config files). As long as it uses fontconfig, at least
it isn't creating an additional font configuration system.  Having a
single font configuration system is priority #1.

Having multiple *rendering* systems is a bit confusing for developers,
but has limited user impact, while multiple font configuration systems
has a very large negative user impact.

Havoc