[Openfontlibrary] Font File Type and Admins?

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:36 -0500, Ed Trager wrote:
> > Also, I'm curious whatever happened to the GTK-version of fontforge?
> > Would you ever be interested in having a GTK or KDE front-end to ff?
> >
> > Jon
> 
> Jon:
> 
> George Williams has, to the best of my knowledge, stated that porting
> FontForge to GTK+ and/or QT/KDE would not result in any immediate
> benefit in terms of functionality and would, therefore, be a waste of
> his time.
> 
> I happen to concur with this opinion.  I suppose that eventually
> *somebody* will take up the reins and do a port to GTK+ and/or QT/KDE,
> but I really don't think this is what is most needed at this time.
> Getting the right functionality, regardless of the visual finesse of
> the GUI, should, IMO, continue be the first priority.
> 
> Best - Ed

I totally understand. Thanks for telling me this...I've had many people
ask me this and or say this is good, but I understand what you are
saying and what is best for fontforge development community.

Anyway, hopefully we can help connect new developers to our project and
font forge :)

Jon


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