From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 04:26:19 EDT
> > > > The glyph prefs are particularly crypic and
> > > > meaningless to 99.9% of people i
> > > > would guess. Are there sane defaults that can be
> > > > used instead. Seems odd to
> > > > have a preference for one specific language.
> >
The 'determine correct glyph shapes from context' is a performance
peference. If you never use any language that requires glyph shaping
and are on a slow computer, turning glyph shaping off can potentially
improve draw performance. We can do away with this preference and do
glyphshaping all the time. I have no objections to this, particularly
as I have recently done some further optimatisation on the shaping
engine.
I accept that the 'Use glyph shaping for Hebrew' preference has no
value for a modern Hebrew or Yiddish speaker; the preference checkbox
can be removed from the Preference dialogue, as long as the
preference itself stays (so it could be changed by manually modifying
the prefs files).
Tomas
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