jed has support for using xft when with X support (as in xjed). the process is a little more involved than a ./configure flag, but i've produced a patch to the current ebuild that simply adds xft rendering based on USE flag. people who have anti-aliased desktops (like me) may appreciate it, otherwise, people with good ole fashion fonts may not like it, hence the need of a USE flag.
Created attachment 8178 [details, diff] xft patch for jed-0.99.16.ebuild oops .. i forgot to add the patch .. ;)
alastair, two things -- would the "truetype" use flag be inappropriate for the patch? and are you interested in becoming a gentoo developer?
seemant, "truetype" is much better, as we don't want too many USE flags floating around. i just chose "xft" because i couldn't find an appropriate flag in use.desc. obviously i didn't look close enough. as for being a gentoo developer, i'm very interested in helping out more with gentoo. tell me where to sign up! ;)
Created attachment 8199 [details, diff] updated xft jed patch this has the USE flag changed to "truetype" and also the DEPEND is updated (oops, i forgot that in the original submission).
commited changes to unstable jed-0.99.16-r1
