"John P. Looney" wrote:
>> 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.
What about the MAC's new OS-X ??? Has anyone played with it yet??
would it be portable to Linux, seeing as it's sitting on BSD as it is??
Apple claim to be going open source...
ojc
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