[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support
Luca Barbato
lu_zero at gentoo.org
Tue Sep 12 21:57:14 CEST 2006
Chris Roccati wrote:
>
> This will create a dependence on an external and optional library under
> MacOS X (and most likely under Win32 too).
So?
> This does not sound like a good idea.
Why?
> An OS-Dependent font rendering layer which could be adapted to FreeType
> under unix, ATSUI under MacOSX and whatever they use under Win32 is
> probably a better idea.
No it isn't and doesn't make much sense since last time I see something
non X11 the fonts were way worse.
lu
--
Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
More information about the MPlayer-dev-eng
mailing list