Further notes on 7.4

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Jul 2 14:02:17 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:47:52PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2008-06-30, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > Why not? People who go out of their way to install legacy apps can also
> > go out of the way to install legacy fonts, surely? The vast majority of
> > users can just go on, content.
> 
> As long as fontconfig/Xft remains blur-fascist [1, 2], my software
> will require core fonts. If core fonts are removed, I will implement
> bitmapped fonts internally in my software. I will not support
> blur-fascist font systems such as fontconfig/Xft.

OK.

> It really is time to switch back to Windows. The only thing keeping
> me in this FOSS crap is the support for window managers. Probably
> you'll remove that too soon... already many apps are not playing
> by the ICCCM.

Hyvä.

Cheers,
Daniel
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