From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 20:22:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB02137B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0Q4PKp69486; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:25:20 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Erik Rothwell Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-aliased fonts and XFree86 4.0.2, generally. Message-ID: <20010125202520.B69390@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <3A70775F.1AD685B7@callgtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A70775F.1AD685B7@callgtn.com>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:58:39PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:58:39PM -0500, Erik Rothwell wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > I just had a couple of questions regarding XFree86 4.0.2: >=20 > 1. At this point, is it worth the upgrade from 3.3.whatever that comes > standard wtih 4.2-RELEASE? What are the benefits of upgrading?=20 In general, "hell yeah". Much improved stability and fewer bugs (inc. security bugs). Plus feature improvements you can read about in the various release notes. OTOH, if your 3.3 is working to your satisfaction then there's no immediate necessity. > 2. I really, really would like anti-aliased fonts :-) I'm a bit of an > aesthetic nut and I think that'd really improve the overall X Windows > experience, if yanno what I mean :-)=20 >=20 > But, I'm unsure from everything I've read about the XFree86 4.02 > rendering engine whether or not *all TT fonts* are *always* antialiased > or just fonts in certain "AA enabled" applications (if that makes any > sense)... I believe the application needs to be AA-enabled (for dynamically linked applications using a toolkit like QT, probably having the toolkit enabled is enough). Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6cPwvWry0BWjoQKURAri3AKDfwjWpSAGp51tJXZ0Jy1uOyZqvyQCg2d2g r2dAWHTZJZefW5iFQoZnR70= =wAKJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message