Re: Next Generation Console Font?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich Felker wrote:

... snip long stuff

I agree on the total crappiness of current "mainstream" GUI implementations.

A decent X GUI application should run blazingly fast on a 66MHz 486, and only
be a few tens of kB in size. I'd love to have X apps run well on old laptops
with 4MB video ram.

When "they" say core X fonts are deprecated, "they" do not represent anyone but
their own agendas.

You might like to know that STSF (http://stsf.sourceforge.net/about.html) has
been unmaintained for a couple of years, but is being resurrected with a recent
patch or two. It does server-side rendering and unicode.

http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/technicalpublications/presentations/iuc22-stsf.pdf

I don't know how stsf handles exotic scripts (still learning stuff like that myself).

The other way is to use freetype2 and Xrender. This will also be quite compact in size,
but you'll have to add all the glyph formatting scripts for different languages if required.

STSF is designed for pluggable rendering engines without needing to recompile X iirc.

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