X Font System

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: X Font System
started by: newby

Posted by newby on July 17 2006,16:29

DSL is Great! But, let's make it greater!

The newer versions of xfs can use True Type fonts. Let's update!

Regards,
newby

Posted by kerry on July 17 2006,19:56

xfs is a font server, it does not have fonts.

Posted by humpty on July 17 2006,23:32

correct me if i'm wrong but the current xfs font server does not support true type fonts ? while the xft server (which comes with xfree86) does.

Posted by mikshaw on July 18 2006,02:37

xft isn't a font server, as far as i know...it's an extension to xfree86/xorg which helps to display special features of certain font types.

Of course if i'm wrong i'll appreciate being corrected....fonts are an annoying thing to work with, and mainly i just stick with the good ol bitmaps.

As for the original post, I think there are already too many fonts in DSL. Most are kinda ugly and i never use more than a few of them. In my opinion it would be nice to have built-in support for additional fonts without actually including them....the user could pick whatever fonts or font sets he wants from mydsl, and the base system would have only a handful of the most vital faces. However, I have no idea how much room this support would require, if it were to include freetype/opentype.

Posted by newby on July 18 2006,08:38

Quote (mikshaw @ July 17 2006,22:37)

As for the original post, I think there are already too many fonts in DSL. Most are kinda ugly and i never use more than a few of them.

I have a few nice ones that I _paid_ for and would like to be able to use!

Posted by kerry on July 18 2006,09:53

i would prefer at least all the bitstream or better yet the new dejavu fonts, which is the replacement for bitstream, if not that, than at least the stock san,serif,sans-serif, and monospace.