Subject: Re: Commit: unix prints from command line now
From: Matti Picus (matti@picus.org)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 01:11:43 CDT
At the risk of starting another silly thread, which I have done quite
frequently lately, I ask <flame proof clothes ON>
It seems to me that every platform except Win32 is using GTK. If this is
true, wouldn't we be better off requiring GTK and unifying a lot more code?
<flame proof clothes OFF - whoops not yet, that last flame singed me!>
Matti
At 10:50 16/10/01 +1000, you wrote:
>HI Leonard,
> I've looked through this code and it will be a real pain to
>move to XP. The way we deal with fonts in unix is a real mess. To put PS
>generation into XP with the current codebase would require moving that
>mess to XP. In addition there lots of embedded gdk font pointers inside
>member variables that are critical to doing correct layout for unix.
>
>I think that when we move to GTK 2.0 which has a much nicer font interface
>and uniform UTF-8 glyph passing, we should take the time to redo how we do
>fonts in unix. With that it should be pretty easy to get PS generation
>into XP too.
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