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The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF

Posted by Hemos on from the the-war-goes-on dept.

NoSun writes "Sun's latest project is to create a font library for XFree86, named Stsf, that would replace Fontconfig and Xft2. But the big question is: Does the world need yet another X font library that would create more incompatibility and fragmentation? Well known Gnome and GTK+ developers are against this (yet another) X font library which just re-invents the wheel one more time with the result of slowing down KDE and Gnome in the desktop race. "

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  1. Name change? by Quixote · · Score: 3, Funny
    to create a font library for XFree86, named Stsf,

    Maybe they should rename it to stfu...

    Baa--dum! Thank you.. I'll be here all weekend.

  2. Ok, fixed the fonts by duck_prime · · Score: 4, Funny
    The font rendering on a modern distro (I'm using Mandrake 9.1 right now) looks comparable to or better than the font rendering on my Windows box. [...] For example, reading CNN or Slashdot in Konqueror, or Phoenix, on my Linux box, it's comparable in readability to on my Windows box.
    So we've got the fonts looking nice on Slashdot. Will somebody now please fix the content?

    Sheesh.