Further notes on 7.4

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 20:47 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2008-06-30, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > Why not? People who go out of their way to install legacy apps can also
> > go out of the way to install legacy fonts, surely? The vast majority of
> > users can just go on, content.
> 
> As long as fontconfig/Xft remains blur-fascist [1, 2], my software
> will require core fonts. If core fonts are removed, I will implement
> bitmapped fonts internally in my software. I will not support
> blur-fascist font systems such as fontconfig/Xft.

"DOS as a simple and manageable system was the high point of computing."

Also, time is actually of a cubic nature.

> In other news, Xrandr was also ruined by making it Xinerama shit.
> I will have my telly as a completely separate screen, thank you.
> I only ever run mplayer on it, and don't want other programs to
> even know about it. (Fuck Xinerama-style kludges, that only provide
> multiple views to a single display model, instead of a multi-display
> model like traditional X multihead. Just remove the artificial 
> reparenting restrictions, make root windows like any other windows,
> creatable dynamically with XCreateWindow, and resizable with 
> XResizeWindow etc.)

"Just".

- ajax