libXrender - documentation?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jan 27 00:55:47 PST 2009



Le Mar 27 janvier 2009 09:23, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen a écrit :

> The text handling in Qt 2 was abysmal (in particular the font
> switching), so we (opera) implemented our own.  I don't think we've
> changed it much since then.  I believe our implementation uses xft and
> "classic x fonts" directly.

QT and pango have been merging behind the scene (harfbuzz). It would
be nice if Opera joined them. That would avoid some of the "WTF fonts
work everywhere except in Opera" recent messages you can easily find
with Google.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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