On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:44:07 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Roger Leigh wrote:Package: xterm Version: 259-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Utilising FreeType is already done for most of the other common terminal emulators in Debian, and looks vastly better, as well as not using the archaic XLFD/X11 Core Fonts.actually, monospace/14 is less legible on my display than 10x20 (both, of course use the same archaic alphabet)I've never found an Xft font I found as legible as the default core font in xterm, so I'm a bit reluctant to make that change...
agreed - On the other hand, it's possible to extend the renderFont resource (with some work to preserve compatibility with the boolean values,and user's notion of how resources are set...) to let that be initially inactive like the utf8 resource. That would allow it to be enabled
at runtime.The patch's fontsize is too large for that - I'd prefer to modify it to correspond with the default non-TrueType fontsize, to make the two more
comparable.I'm thinking about that approach. However, for #260 it seems that I'll focus on fixing #584841, and filling in documentation gaps that I've noticed.
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