Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

From: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 19:50:28 +0100

Hi,

> I'm not opposed in switching fully to Xft. Xfonts are a mess as well.
>
> Though I'd really like to base st/dwm/dmenu on libsl/drw.c
>
> With this, dmenu/dwm/st would not directly depend on Xft/fontconfig,
> but on drw only. Then it depends on the drw-implementation what it
> uses internally. The drw-interface must expose something
> Xft-independent of course in order to achieve this.

I like this idea, because we are duplicating similar code in different
applications. Fontconfig sucks, a lot, so if we put it in a library and
remove it from the source of our applications I think is better.

Regards,
Received on Sat Mar 07 2015 - 19:50:28 CET