On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Haomin Wen <[email protected]> wrote: > For programmers, there is little difference, or at least it generally will > not increase SLOC. Yes, but at the cost of dragging in a huge chain of libraries, which is insanity. Just because you can't see the complexity doesn't mean it's not there.
> For users, they just need to set the font to something like "Sans-10" or > "Monosapce-10". It is much simpler than setting X fonts. Besides, fontconfig > is powerful. User can set spacing, priority, antialias, hinting, and a lot > more properties of fonts, which is necessary for certain fonts. Not only can the user set these things, the user *has to*, because otherwise his screen is an unreadable mess. I may be be in the minority here, but ASCII works wonderfully, and I'm happy with the state of font rendering in dwm. # Kurt H Maier
