Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:22:04 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of X? Message-ID: <20031114002204.GA1035@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20031113233628.GA56182@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > But the freedesktop.org stuff isn't a replacement of X, just further > > development of XFree86 in a new direction. It certainly looks good, > > and KeithP can deliver, he is the guy responsible for the antialiased > > font support in XFree86 today. > > So we can expect future XFree86 enhancements to also be slow and > blurry? :-) Well, I don't know about slow, but I like those blurry drop-shadows :-) http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/screen3.png Seriously -- anti-aliasing was blurry in its early days, but with recent xft and 2.1.x versions of freetype it's as good as or better than on any other OS. Eg, the fonts in that screenshot (the insects and other graphics are antialiased too, none of it looks blurry to me). As for speed -- in its early days there was a slowness in generating .xftcache, but no longer. Rahul
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