IcedTea Fonts

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> <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?

It's already packaged for Fedora:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/fedora

Only some questionable license headers are preventing it from being proposed for 
Rawhide.  As soon as the license headers are cleaned up I'll be proposing it for 
inclusion.

Tom