IcedTea Fonts

[Hans de Goede]

<resending with CC to mailinglist, sorry>

Kyle Galloway wrote:
> A replacement for the encumbered font rendering code has been checked 
> into IcedTea.  It removes the dependency on the encumbered libt2k, and 
> replaces it with FreeType.  Sun is working on a more full-featured 
> replacement, and I believe the code is close to being merged into 
> OpenJDK itself.  Screen shots are available on Francis' blog 
> http://fkung.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/icedtea-fonts-working/ .
> 

Very cool,

I have some questions I hope you're willing to answer:

So how far away are we from something thats theoretically ready to run
graphical java apps?

Are there any plans on packaging this for inclusion into Fedora anytime soon,
are there any reasons why it cannot be packaged at the moment?

I'm asking because I'm an experienced Fedora packager, and I'm concidering to
take a shot at packaging IcedTea, notice that me experience with packahing java
stuff is zero! But I hope to compensate for that with plenty of general
packaging experience (I maintain 135 packages).

Regards,

Hans