On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 06:17:56PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 8/4/19 6:13 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > > > I'd like to start a discussion here on reverting Pango. > > > > > > As noted in the comments section here, this version of Pango drops > > support for bitmap fonts: > > > > https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/27/more-text-rendering-updates/ > > > > This causes terminal emulators to display empty boxes in double-width > > spaces, as just one example. In addition, there are countless rendering > > bugs here:
For bitmap fonts, mw preference is to cast them into the outer darkness, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth! But for CJK and double-width I'll take advice from xry211 ;-) > > > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues > > > > The developers are also recommending an unreleased version of Cairo to > > fix "rendering issues" in some of those issues. I don't think we want > > that. > > > > I'm most definitely sure that removing Python support from GIMP is NOT > > the way to go. Note that there is a bug here for moving to PyGObject > > from PyGTK, but little to no progress: > > > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/339 > > At the moment, python2 is top of my hated-languages list (above even rust and recent C++) but gimp's immediate priority is gtk3. Since python2 is unfortunately still used by graphical web browsers, getting rid of it isn't going to happen any time soon. :-( > > > > I propose that we revert Pango to 1.42.x from 1.44.3 because of their > > dropping of bitmap font support, recommendation to use an unstable > > cairo, problems with PyGTK, and rendering issues. > > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 > Sad, but perhaps the right thing to do for 9.0 - more generally, using harfbuzz is a good idea - but other important things need to be ready for it. > > I forgot to add that in - Type1 fonts in GTK+2 are affected as well. > That sounds odd - Type1 fonts are scalable. Any examples (font(s), and application(s)), please ? ĸen -- One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you, Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice, When she's ten feet tall. -- Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
