On 05/28/07 20:59, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff.
Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs the pixel fonts, please let me know if this is ok. Since probably most of you will be running VDR with UTF-8 anyway (once it is supported, which will be very soon), my guess would be that the pixel fonts are really obsolete.
The extrecmenu-plugin uses pixel fonts to display icons. Some unused character numbers are assigend with those new "characters" to display a symbol of a dvd, directory,.... This looks very nice and is a great usability enhancement.
This wouldn't work with Freetype fonts, anyway.
So i think something similar (integrating icons in the OSD) should be possible also in future VDR versions.
I agree.
So I guess it's safe if I drop pixel fonts altogether. Anti-aliased freetype fonts really do look good ;-)
Klaua