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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: multifont?Re: multifont?
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:14:27 -0800 On 10 February 2010 20:42, Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz_at_student.htw-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10.02.2010 23:35, Jonathan Gordon wrote: >> >> OK, this was talked about a bit in IRC today but I want to get more of >> an answer (the topic came to a halt :p ) >> >> I think everyone agrees that having a single buffer to hold as many >> fonts as the user wants (up to a reasonable number) is the best way to >> go, but this has been the case for as long as I can remember and >> nothing has happened. >> >> I now have a patch which works and is almost finished, but it uses >> separate buffers for each font (coming from the skin buffer, not new >> buffers) which I feel is a good enough solution until someone comes >> along and does the work to make it all into one buffer. >> >> So here is the question. Is there enough opposition to going about it >> this way (separate buffers for each font) that someone will put up >> their hand and do the work so its done properly? Or are we happy to >> have this "good enough" solution for the time being? >> >> This "good enough" version by the way is in no way hacky or anything, >> its just not the best solution. (FS#10984 by the way) >> >> Jonathan >> > > To be honest, I'm not the greatest fan of this implementation, although it's > way better than the original one (things like the skin buffer didn't exist > back then). > > As noted, a single buffer would perform best. But let's be serious, nobody > is going to look at this in a reasonable time. Multifont is a much-asked > feature (in fact, it's almost required on targets with a remote), even asked > by devs which dislike JdGordon's way (like me and amiconn). But I would > really love to see it in instead of waiting for the correct way another 3 > years. > > We must remind that - if it happens that the skin buffer is resonably > resizable (by automatically adjusting and/or user setting - I said I would > like to have a look at the former) this way is good enough, as it doesn't > have a penalty for the ones that don't use it (the originial patch had > this). > > Ultimatively, I think it should go in. BUT, I would like to see a way for > plugins to make use of it. "Bad" Multifont for themes only - I'm not sure if > that's worth it. (IMO yes, because I like theming, but I can imagine > there're a plenty of voices against). > > Best regards. > Don't worry, it wil be usable in plugins (although imo they shouldn't require fonts). I've just uploaded a new version which lets you set a different UI fonr for remote LCD's Received on 2010-02-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |