On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 20:40 +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > > But who is actually responsible for the development/maintenance of xft? > > For sure they do not seem to hang around on this list, though I gather > > they are within the overall Xorg structure somewhere. > XFT is more or less a sample implementation, and as far as I know its > not used a lot. > As far as I know QT does its own glyph handling, so does GTK with pango.
According to apt-cache --installed rdepends libxft2 Qt4 indeed no longer seems to use Xft (whereas Qt3 did), but Pango still seems to use it. Also, /usr/share/doc/libxft2/copyright contains: It was downloaded from <URL: http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/libXft-2.1.7.tar.gz >. Upstream maintainer: Keith Packard -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
