Subject: Re: bug#36028: A native module

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 21:31:23 +0300

> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:45:10 +0000
> From: Tetsumi <[email-masked]>
> 
> To overcome this problem i made a native module to configure Xft from emacs:
> https://bitbucket.org/Tetsumi/emacs-xft-config/src/master/
> 
> Here a demo (webm video): https://webm.red/3Mr9.webm
> 
> Please consider adding two procedures in emacs's xftfont.c to set/get the default pattern of Xft, that would
> give the user total control on font settings.

Thanks.  However, I wonder whether we should invest too much effort in
developing for Xft, as I understand it isn't in active development,
see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/.