[forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...

[Hideki Hiura]

>From: hiura@freestandards.org (Hideki Hiura)
> > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
> > But the primary problem here is not the existence of STSF, but the
> > fact that STSF is (last I checked) _duplicating_ in an incompatible
> > way the font configuration and matching architecture of fontconfig.
> I guess you've got a misinformation. STSF has a compatibility
> layer, which made STSF compatible with fontconfig and xft2.

I forgot to mention that I have seen an unmodified GNOME desktop running
with STSF via this comparibility layer; 

What this means that an unmodified GTK+ recongnizes STSF as xft2/fontconfig.

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