Re: better back-art support in core (Was: Re: Problem gettingback-art better back-art support in core (Was: Re: Problem getting back-art

[Adam Fedor]

Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> -art seems to be most complete and working backed, but it is treated as 
> 'optional and not supported, so make it work it yourself'. It is unfair :)
>
> To prevent font dificulties, would it be possible to include fonts in 
> some core-* package? I would suggest to include them (at least basic 
> font set) in core-gui or create (as i have proposed few monts ago) 
> another gnustep-core package called core-resources or something like 
> that for all -gui resources. Another option is to create separate -font 
> backends for font handling. This can be useful for general font 
> management, including management of screen and printer fonts, font 
> substitution/matching, inlining non-standard fonts in .ps/.pdf output... 
> With this -font backends one can use both X and freetype fonts for 
> example, or Windows and free type fonts at the same time.

Definitely. I'd like to see back-art be easily installable so it can 
become the default backend.