OSNews: The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF

“Sun is doing quite some work on GNOME and X these days. Their
latest project is to create a font library for XFree86, named Stsf,
that would replace Fontconfig and Xft2. But the big question is:
Does the world need yet another X font library that would create
more incompatibility and fragmentation…?

“One of the reasons behind the creation of this project is the
fact that XFT2 requires the XRender XFree86 extension in order to
run fast enough, while Sun Solaris’ proprierty X11 and other
non-XFree86 X11 implementations do not support this extension. So
Sun got hard at work to create a new font library that would offer
nice AA fonts on Java, Star/OpenOffice.org and Gnome/GTK+
applications…”

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