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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Eye of the Tiger
From:       mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1998-11-18 18:07:18
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There is a team of programmers (myself included) working on implementing
anti-aliased fonts as an extension to Xfree 4.0. 

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Jo Dillon wrote:
>Warwick Allison (warwick@troll.no) spake thusly:
>> Jo Dillon wrote:
>> >Qt 2.0 doesn't [have] anti-aliased Truetype support, and I can write
>> >a patch to put that in Qt now :)
>> 
>> I'd rather see new X protocols to do it, then Gtk and other toolkits
>> can also use the technology.  Windows managed to do it that way, so
>> why not X?
>
>  Well, I wouldn't argue that the right place for such things is in X.
>But to put it in X requires all X vendors to agree to put it there.
>That's a difficult task :) Gtk is going the route of putting Truetype
>rendering in the widget set, and I think it's a reasonable second best.
> 
>> Hey!  Get all this devel noise off kde-licensing!  I thought kde-devel 
>> was created to keep devel crap out of serious licensing discussions.
>
>  Well, this was a licensing issue. Thanks to your new license I 
>am now sympathetic to the idea of writing such a patch for Qt rather
>than working on Harmony ;)
> 
>> --
>> Warwick
>> ;-)
>> 
>
>-- 
>	Jo
>
>Harmony - the project to create an LGPL Qt clone
>http://harmony.ruhr.d
--
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@jorsm.com
mosfet@mieterra.com
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