[PATCH app-xfs 2/3] doc: remove pdf target for developer's doc
Thomas Dickey
dickey at his.com
Thu Jan 21 02:11:20 PST 2010
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:05:06 -0500 (EST)
> Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
>
>> The reason for xfs was to move the computation and I/O off to the server,
>> which might be far away, reducing both. Client-side font-rendering
>> doesn't appear to solve that problem. Rather than discussing technology,
>> so far all I've seen is noise about "new", etc.
>>
>
> so far all _I_'ve seen is client-side-font rendering. and i like it.
> (users perspective)
>
> i remember those really gruesome (from a usability-point-of-view)
> font-selection dialogs (... -*-*-*-*-12-*-* or whatever..). i'm happy
> the way it is now.
the format shown in the dialog is unrelated to the topic.
> who run's x over network and hasn't a fast network, anyway?
awai - remote accesses are usually slower than local
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