Re: [STUMP] Revitalizing StumpWM

[David Bjergaard]

Hi,

Comments inline: 
Michael Raskin <address@hidden> writes:
[snip]
>>My two cents is to consider merging the truetype-enabled StumpWM fork.
>>Unless there's a reason why this is a shaky or not widely-compatible
>>implementation (and I wouldn't know if it was), it seems like a very
>>reasonable thing to have as a core part of StumpWM.
>>
>>Thanks again!
>>Eric
>>
>>https://github.com/filonenko-mikhail/stumpwm.git
>
> As a user of this fork:
>
> 1. It would be very nice to have this in core StumpWM
> 2. This brings some dependencies into StumpWM (right now StumpWM has 
> just one external dependency: CL-PPCRE). 
> 3. Text drawing is slower with this fork, especially when some character
> is drawn after it is purged from cache as too old. As far as
> I understand this doesn't affect fixed fonts, but it is something to 
> document…
Can you explain point 3?  I'm happy to merge this with the core, I just
want to understand exactly what you mean. I'm actually using this
version on one of my computers now.  

Cheers,

    Dave