IcedTea Fonts

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I already new about those nosrc.rpm's, but I didn't know they were 
> planned to go to rawhide, thats really good news! Any progress news on 
> those license headers?
> 
> Also any chance we can see a new snapshot there soon with the font stuff 
> included?

Yup, I'm testing a candidate nosrc RPM right now.

> 
> last question, can I start trying (and packaging) apps which are known 
> not to work with gcj, will you take bug reports for apps not working?

Definitely, though I'd suggest starting with non-GUI packages until the IcedTea 
graphics work is done.  You could search jpackage.org for non-GUI packages that 
they provide that we don't yet ship in Fedora, for example.

Tom