Re: What's the prerenderer do?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:34:31 +0100,
>>>>>> "CC" == Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> wrote:
> 
> CC> Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002, à 02:21:44PM -0600, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>>> > Please. Not this. Let's stick to the portable set of fonts only
>>> > (high-end printers or software rasterisers will some sort of caching
>>> > anyway).
>>> > 
>>> > Translators have no business knowing about font names; we have to do
>>> > this for the moment, but it's an ugly kludge.
>>> 
>>> Well, I noticed that some font names are in _() already.  Without such
>>> translation, how can we fixed strings in objects be translated and
>>> displayed correctly?
> 
> CC> Pango's business, not ours. (ours until we delegate to pango,
> CC> actually)
> 
> it's GTK+2.0 case. I believe that next release will be on
> GTK+1.2 yet, Isn't it so?
> the latest version goes by a lot of time, and it seems to be
> too late for starting to ported to GTK+2.0, because we will
> need to change a lot of code and may need to be refactoring
> it. but current CVS dia is imcomplete for release, I think.

The current version is totally not ready for release.  Either the Unicode
stuff or the FreeType stuff should be in good shape before the next
release.

-Lars

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