id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,cvshead 21,Better font rendering on X,jan vrany,,"On X Window, an ancient core X API is used to draw text. The result is bad as it has no support for freetype fonts, antialiasing, hintting and so on. While the best would be yo use [[http://www.pango.org|PANGO]] library, this is quite some work. As an transitional solution one may use Xft library. The idea here is to create a special {{{XftFont}}} class and use custom font rendering (simular to BitmapFont). Later on, the support could be merged right into {{{XWorkstation}}}. ",todo,new,major,,default,,,,0