Re: backart - default backend?

[Riccardo]

Hello,

On Saturday, February 19, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> > XLib has major problems with:
> > 1) Font rendering (point sizes)
> > 2) The font panel
> > 3) Drawing to pixel instead of point.   Granted, on most displays 
> > these are
> > close, but it's enough to be a problem.
>
> Could you please explain the problem with the font panel? That's a GUI 
> class and I don't have any idea what the xlib backendmay do differntly 
> here.

the fonts listed are often wrong, some may be missing. Usually I get a 
font called "NIL" and some fonts display white. This is reproduceable on 
a variety of different X servers, operating systems, etc...

the Nil font is probably an alarm bell :)

-Riccardo