[Lazarus] GTK2 is now the default widgetset

Giuliano Colla giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it
Wed Oct 8 21:32:11 CEST 2008


Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mattias Gärtner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>> The speed of gtk1 and 2 differ widely. On some platforms the gtk2 is even faster
>> than gtk1. It depends on your window manager, video driver and the gtk2 version.
>> AFAIR gtk 2.12 fixed some issues.
> 
> Luckily my Ubuntu 7.10 has 2.12.xx.  So I'll get an update now (at
> home) and give it a spin in GTK2. Oh no! That means I have to recreate
> the Raize font again. :-)  I've been postponing this for ages, because
> to a lot of effort. Before I manually drew all Raize characters in
> FontForge so I could generate bitmap fonts for linux GTK1. Now I'll
> have to try and make truetype fonts for GTK2.
> 

Have you tried the misc-fixed font coming with most Linux distros? It's 
very similar to Raize, and it works just fine both with GTK1 and GTK2.

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Giuliano Colla

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