Closed Bug 302514 Opened 19 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Pango dynamic switching

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, enhancement)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
GFX: Gtk
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: antony.gelberg, Assigned: blizzard)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726 Firefox/1.0+

Pango is off in builds unless --enable-pango is given.  However it is necessary
to render some languages properly.  Apparently some people do not like it as it
is slower (not sure if this is the case).

Therefore it seems desirable to be able to switch pango on and off at runtime
either manually, or better still, based on the language of the page being
viewed.  This way pango can be switched on in builds by default, with no
detriment to users who don't need it much.

Reproducible: Always
Is there a good reason for restricting this bug to Firefox? Surely it is a core
issue, which should apply also to Thunderbird, Mozilla suite etc.

Attempted to change this, but I am not allowed to.
Fair enough - this is something that I noticed in Firefox which is why I filed
the bug there.  Moving to Core.  If I pick the wrong component I'm sure someone
will put it where it should go.  :)
Component: General → Layout: View Rendering
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Moved to Layout for triage (please).
Component: Layout: View Rendering → Layout
QA Contact: general → layout
Assignee: nobody → blizzard
Component: Layout → GFX: Gtk
QA Contact: layout → gtk
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
The possibility of not using Pango no longer exists, and I believe any performance issues have long since been fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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