On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Michael Cree wrote: >> Hope you don't mind a question from a user who is running xfs: What >> replaces xfs? Should we now be running some other application for >> font serving? > > The vast majority of users don't need a font server, as they're not > running X applications that use the old font apis to reference fonts > stored on a machine different from the X server. > > The new font apis (libXft) don't use font servers or server-side fonts, > so xfs has no use to applications that use them (as gtk, Qt, and most > other modern toolkits do).
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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
