Re: what gui backend

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2004-05-25 17:51:04 +0000 Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

> MJ Ray wrote:
> > Art seems slower, but not noticably so on a local machine. It does 
> > give
> > AA-style display: can that be done with back-xlib?
>
> Yes, but you need to switch it on yourself:
>
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES
>
> (Don't forget to switch your font names in the defaults to existing 
> ones as 
> well)
>
> Why is it not permantly switched on?
> Because I just don't like it. :-)

Well, Art also provides full AA for the drawing, which afaik is not 
possible with back-xlib.
I didn't noticed that Art was slower than back-xlib (it was more the 
reverse), but it's been
a while since I used back-xlib.
The most interesting option though would be a good cairo backend.

--
Nicolas Roard