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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. Re:Still inferior by DShard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Needless to say, better or not it suffers from not invented here syndrome. Simply put I hate Sun and all their software products because they have REPEATABLY shown themselves to be the microsoft of unix-land.
    Though if you take software off the table they do have some of the most interesting and exciting hardware around. Although I will never be able to afford any new UltraSparc, sigh.

  2. Sun ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    StarOffice fonts suck. Anyone but not Sun, please...

  3. Xwindows sux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jesus CDE, KDE, Xwindows is horrible, I have a programing book for writing libraries on it, it's specs talk about cobol and what not. Just go with OSeX.

  4. Re:Still inferior by elfkicker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow. Those screenshots look like total shit.