On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:17:18AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:12:32AM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: [...] > > Hmm, now I realize that one assumption I've been making throughout > > this discussion is that we're using fixed width fonts. If one wants to > > get rid of that, using variable space fonts on the console, then a > > glyph matrix isn't so natural anymore. > > This is an assumption you really have to make. curses and other libs/apps > can not do the right thing with variable space fonts. > > Is there a terminal emulator for X that uses variables space fonts? I would > like to try it out. But I can imagine a hell lot of display problems caused > by app-unawareness, starting from ASCII art to graphic characters (box > drawing) and overwriting text.
I've used variable-width fonts in gnome-terminal--things tend to get pretty ugly... ... which is not to say that a user shouldn't be allowed to choose for things to be ugly like that :) -- mas Paine _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
