Re: [RULE] Question about kdrive

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:28 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:
> The kdrive page at : http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/kdrive.php says
> that kdrive has about half the features of standard X. What are the
> missing features? If one used a modern version of Qt or GTK with
> kddrive, would they work? If not, which parts would not work?

Just so you know I'm not ignoring you, I'll give you a partial answer for 
now. I'd need to dig around a little for a better answer.

o No fontserver used
o No anti aliased fonts
o No truetype fonts
o Probably no fontconfig support, I need to test this more.
o The above might cause a problem for recent Qt or GTK apps.
o No X config file. The server takes command line args only.
o Font paths are hard coded into the server. (though additional paths can
        be passed on the command line.)
o Servers run suid root, but then again, so does the stock XFree.
        $ ll /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
        -rws--x--x    1 root     root   1884018 Sep  5 23:29 
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

o On a machine with 12 or even 32M of ram, none of the above might be an
        issue, if it means that you can at least use a minimal X.

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