"Nicolas Mailhot" <[email protected]> writes: > Le Mar 27 janvier 2009 09:23, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen a écrit : > >> The text handling in Qt 2 was abysmal (in particular the font >> switching), so we (opera) implemented our own. I don't think we've >> changed it much since then. I believe our implementation uses xft and >> "classic x fonts" directly. > > QT and pango have been merging behind the scene (harfbuzz). It would > be nice if Opera joined them. That would avoid some of the "WTF fonts > work everywhere except in Opera" recent messages you can easily find > with Google.
I suspect this would be the correct thing to do for almost all programs, including opera. Text rendering (as opposed to glyph rendering, which is almost trivial) is truly a hard problem, and I think it would be highly beneficial if everyone used the same engine. Particularly because I suspect that user tweaking of the configuration will always be necessary. (I haven't looked at pango yet, so I have no idea if it is suitable for us (API or license-wise). And I don't work on the desktop browser either these days, so I don't know too much about what is happening there.) eirik _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
