ports/143951: [PATCH] Add support for Xft fonts to x11/dmenu

[Ashish SHUKLA]

The following reply was made to PR ports/143951; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: wahjava at gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
To: Jeroen Schot <schot at A-Eskwadraat.nl>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/143951: [PATCH] Add support for Xft fonts to x11/dmenu
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:50:08 +0530

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 Hi Jeroen,
 
 Apologies for the late reply.
 
 Jeroen Schot writes:
 > Hi,
 
 > Thanks for your PR. Although I have been hesitant adding unofficial
 > patches to the dmenu and dwm ports, this looks very interesting. I
 > have however some questions:
 
 > Are you the original author of this patch and/or do you plan to
 > maintain it?
 
 No, I'm not the author of that patch, but I just customized the patch to su=
 it
 port. Anyways, the patch is not difficult to maintain, so I can maintain it=
  :).
 
 > If so, would you care to host/list it on the community wiki at
 > <http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/>?
 
 > Some technical remarks:
 > - I do not agree with XFT defaulting to On.
 
 Okay, fine. This can be fixed.
 
 > - Why is a '-bh' option added? It seems unrelated to XFT.
 > - Why is the '-sf' option removed? This can/will break existing
 >   configurations.
 
 I'm not an extensive user of dmenu, but I can look at it. At the moment, I'=
 m a
 bit busy but I can reply to you with an updated patch and with any
 explanations you seek, in a week or 10 days.
 
 Thanks
 =2D-=20
 Ashish SHUKLA
 
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