Documentation?

Tuomo Valkonen tuomov at iki.fi
Tue Apr 7 02:03:02 PDT 2009


On 2009-04-07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> XWindows changed a lot since 1994. Legacy stuff is still available but
> not really supposed to be used anymore, and in particular (and of
> special interest to toolkit authors) nowadays to display text you
> should go through XFT and fontconfig and not use legacy Core X11 font
> methods.

And legacy=bad? X core fonts still beat the shit out of the
blur-fascist Xft/fontconfig XML-vomit mess with authors/packagers
that hate the beautiful Helvetica with a passion.

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