Re: Bloat: XML, GUI design (was: Re: [OT] Gnome configuration (was: Re: Congrats! [gnome font rendering]))
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:55, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:06:28PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > That parser isn't technically XML; they call it GMarkup. It's extremely
> > close though...I think the only differences are that GMarkup only
> > supports UTF-8 encoding, and only supports certain entity escapes.
>
> Would this be inadequate for fontconfig's config file? Does fontconfig
> need complete xml with namespaces and dtds and schemas and character
> encodings just to store its preferences?
Probably not. I think it would rock if fontconfig used glib, but given
that fontconfig is part of XFree86, I do not see it as very likely at
this point; glib is LGPL and XFree is X-licensed, so...
Changing it to use libxmltok directly might be both politically and
technically possible. Personally though, my laptop has 1G of RAM; 700k
is less than one tenth of a percent of that. In other words, I'm not
going to waste my time on it :)
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