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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font installer re-design
From:       Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-04-29 7:31:52
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Sounds interesting. Unfortunately this will again mean quite some changes in 
the font API, but would have the advantage of getting global fonts for all 
(even non Qt based ) apps. We'll need to do some changes for Xft-2 anyway but 
we wanted to wait for this until an official version of Xft-2 is out.

The main problem I see for Qt is keeping backwards compatibitly with the old 
xlfd and Xft-1 APIs. Surely nothing we can add for Qt-3.0.x.

Cheers,
Lars


> On Friday 26 April 2002 11:06 pm, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > >Following the recent discussions about KControl modules, and the Font
> > >Installer in particular, I propose to make the following changes to
> > >K(cm)Fontinst:
> >
> > I know this isn't directly relevant, but are the maintainers of KFontinst
> > aware of this new potential font management standard?
> >
> > http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/guadec2002/
>
> Interesting. If I understand it right it seems that it mostly does a lot of
> the stuff that is now done by Qt. (font-selection / listing) We currently
> have no GUI-options to configure that process and I guess we will have to
> wait a bit to see in which way Qt is going to support this.
>
> Lars: any thoughts on this?
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

 
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