[RULE] kdrive update

[M. Fioretti]

Richard,

thanks for the good job. At a quick reading, I have only one note, see
below:

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 16:52:06 at 04:52:06PM +0300, Kweskin Richard  rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr  wrote:

>         On the cons side, it doesn't use the xfs font server, and
>         doesn't support true type fonts.

I don't remember about true type, but the advantage of modern Linux
applications (and, of course, of RULE which want to stay current, not
resort to old SW) is that they do client side fonts with the
xft2/fontconfig libraries. See my talk with Keith Packard, author of
them *and* kdrive for this:

http://www.rule-project.org/en/docs/kdrive_xft2.php

In other words, it seems possible to have a mix of kdrive and properly
configured xft2-enabled applications which simply don't need a font
server.

For the record, the standard xterm in Red Hat 9 can do non alphabetic
stuff just for its use of the above libraries. To test it, download:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt and do
"more UTF-8-demo.txt" in a shell started with this command:

uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

Of course, this should be tested, also to see if and how much it
impacts performances.

Any comment?

Ciao,
	Marco Fioretti

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