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Re: Motif support
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xenodasein |
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Re: Motif support |
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Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:17:32 +0100 (CET) |
Dec 24, 2021, 03:38 by luangruo@yahoo.com:
> That benefit is hardly established.
>
We could establish deeper, but any developer who worked
on both traditional desktop apps or graphical apps with their
own rendering like "games" will tell you same things.
> What about locating the font files to open? Scaling glyphs, which is
> usually the job of the platform, and essentially required for color
> Emoji? What about displaying the resulting bitmap, or decomposed glyph
> outline?
>
> All those tasks need platform-dependent code, and about the same amount
> as supporting the native font rasterizer.
>
> Then take a look at ftfont.c, the "abstract" FreeType font driver,
> unless you're saying we should also reinvent the (platform-specific)
> code to detect and use installed fonts?
>
You kinda have to use platform dependent features directly, as we
are not programming into aether. However, painting menus isn't one.
You don't need a third-party solution, whether it is from platform itself
like legacy win32 GUI elements or another library. Using them is like
using a sledgehammer to drive a nail in Emacs' case. We could even do
the text rendering itself too, provided an expert would contribute it to
Emacs. But no one said let's do text rendering, AFAIK.
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- Re: Motif support, Arthur Miller, 2021/12/23
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- Re: Motif support, Arthur Miller, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Po Lu, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Arthur Miller, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Po Lu, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Arthur Miller, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Po Lu, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support,
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- Re: Motif support, Po Lu, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, xenodasein, 2021/12/23
- Re: Motif support, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/24
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- Re: Motif support, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/24
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- Re: Motif support, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/23
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