Fontconfig...

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

One question..

At fontconfig page ( http://fontconfig.org ), the author mention a patch to 
qt3 enabling use of fontconfig with xft2 instead of xft1. And mentions that 
troll's already working on it.
I know that use this thing is a great improvement, even to use of xft1, but i 
think that's is a bit more sane wait qt be ready to xft2 to start use in 
KDE's code, avoiding possible problems in this stage of 3.1 development.
And even we don't know if qt will have this one in qt 3.1 now...

[]'s Helio

On Saturday 07 September 2002 13:21, Craig Drummond wrote:
> On Saturday 07 September 2002 08:34, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 September 2002 04:37, Craig Drummond wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > p.p.s. Can someone with XML experience look at the code
> > > (kcontrol/fonts/kxftconfig.cpp) and tell me why the indentation is soo
> > > badly messed up - and how to fix it?
> >
> > XML does not care about indentation. The indentation published in most
> > examples is just so its easier to read. So no fix needed.
>
> Yes and no. The messed up indentation makes the files harder to be human
> readable - but  Iunderstand your point.
>
> > > I would like to add the attatched configure.in.in file to
> > > kcontrol/fonts so that fontconfig can be checked for, and used if
> > > found.
> > >
> > > However, I'm not sure if this is allowable at this stage - seeing as
> > > we're in a feature freeze. The problem is that XFree86 V4.3 (which will
> > > use fontconfig) is scheduled to be released sometime between KDE3.1 and
> > > KDE3.2
> > >
> > > Should this wait for KDE3.1.1? Or just leave for KDE3.2?
> >
> > You say the code is allready there, this just leaves us with the standard
> > questions;
>
> Well it needs the files attatched to my previous email to work - but yeah
> the code is there.
>
> > - how stable is the interface of the just released fontconfig (the xml is
> > the interface here I assume..)
>
> Fontconfig has gone through various release candidates - so I'm fairly sure
> this is the final stabalised form of the library and XML interface.
>
> > - are you prepared to fix any upcoming bugs when they present themselves?
>
> Yeah - there shouldn't bee to many, as the current code doesn't add/modify
> much of the XML file.
>
> > If the answer to both questions is positive, I think there will be no
> > problem (but wait for a possible veto from others :)
>
> Cool - I'll count that as one vote for....
>
> Thanks.
>
> Craig.

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