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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. Hello, logic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    - If Sun's project is vastly inferior, no one will use it and it won't cause "fragmentation".

    - If Sun's project is vastly *superior*, then the people who switch to it will enjoy a great implementation. You shouldn't force Sun to collaborate in this case. Mozart's compositions wouldn't be as good if he had been forced to "collaborate" with the inferior composers of his time.

    - It's only if Sun's project is "comparable" to previous projects that it will cause fragmentation.