[forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...

[Martijn Sipkema]

> > I'll admit we've found some problems with STSF that we've corrected
> > in our current development (yes, the web site is out of date, we're
> > working on an update), but we've found the core design works well for
> > us.  What about it do you find to be bad?
> 
> GTK+/Qt/GNOME/KDE/Mozilla are all already using fontconfig/Xft for a
> year or more, and they work very well for our needs while remaining
> very simple.  fontconfig/Xft were developed in close cooperation with
> the toolkits and major open source desktop projects so it's not
> surprising that they work well for us.
> 
> STSF is much more complicated, and the complexity is not solving any
> problem that we have.

Perhaps it solves problems others may have. And why not comment on the
design problems you said STSF has?

> Aside from the technical issues, STSF is simply too late.

I doubt that.

> fontconfig/Xft have already been adopted by both GTK+ and Qt which are
> the major toolkits, and we aren't interested in having another system.

There may be others who use X without these toolkits. And there are other
toolkits. Do you speak for these too, assuming you speak for all GTK+
and QT developers?

--ms