Bug 43050

Summary: Explain in the tutorial that core fonts are discouraged
Product: XCB Reporter: Dan Cecile <dancecile>
Component: LibraryAssignee: xcb mailing list dummy <xcb>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: xcb mailing list dummy <xcb>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Dan Cecile 2011-11-17 18:34:25 UTC 
The "Basic Graphics Programming" tutorial for XCB includes a section on fonts and text (http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/libxcb/tutorial/index.html#font). Unfortunately, this part of the tutorial uses server-side, core fonts whose use is discouraged.

This section of the tutorial should be removed, replaced with an Xft section, or at least annotated with a warning that Xft provides better font and text support than the old core fonts system.

For example, the "Fonts in X11" documentation (http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/fonts/fonts.html) says, "While X.Org will continue to maintain the core fonts system, toolkit authors are encouraged to switch to Xft as soon as possible."
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 19:41:12 UTC 
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