On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:33:51PM +0000, Vincent Murphy mentioned:
> doesn't sawmill use imlib?
Nope.
> this helix gnome thing looks pretty spiffy though. i think X needs decent
> text rendering (anti-aliased truetype) though. i used macos 9 last week
> and the text even in netscape makes linux and windows look crap. will this
> improve with XFree86 4?
Nope. The X spec has to be updated to say "Fonts can be antialiased". To
be honest, I can't see why someone can't just do an anitaliasing X server,
that anti-aliases everything.
Kate
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