Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?

[D. D. Brierton]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:54:17 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:
> 
>> I remember that a while ago GTK2 support was committed to Emacs
>> CVS. Did that make it into 21.3.1,
> 
> No.  21.3 is a bugfix release.
> 
>> or is it not ready for primetime yet?
> 
> I am using it currently, but it is still the developer version with
> its own sets of bugs.  None that would make Emacs less stable than
> typical run-of-the-mill editors, but decidedly less than customary
> for Emacs.  I manage an occasional core dump when doing heavy duty
> work.

Thanks for clarifying, David. So I guess 22.x is a more realistic
timeframe for GTK2 support as standard?

>> Also, is there any way yet to get Emacs 21.3.1 to use anti-aliased
>> fonts that the recent versions of XFree86 allow for?
> 
> Not even the developer version renders its main text area fonts via
> GTK unless I am mistaken, so I guess the answer is no.  The title bar,
> menu bar and the menus themselves, however, _do_ appear antialiased to
> my eye.

Yes, I remember from discussions on the group that the actual main text
area will probably never use GTK2/Pango for rendering text as Emacs has too
many specialised requirements that simply aren't in GTK2/Pango. But ultimately
the fonts themselves are being rendered by X aren't they? And antialiasing
is in XFree86 itself, via freetype or Xft or something (sorry for the
vagueness but the internals of X gives me the hebegebes). So can we expect
at any time soon to see Emacs being able to use anti-aliased fonts?

The thing is, that when none of my apps were antialiased I didn't really
notice so much, but now practically everything is, Emacs is beginning to
give me a headache. Relative to everything else on my screen its fonts are
really hard to read.

Best, Darren

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