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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:32:16 -0800
From: nwmcsween@...il.com
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Summary of 1.0 marketing plan/scheme/nefarious plot from IRC.

From a quick glance (evas_font*) it does. The other reason behind enlightenment is that native applications don't have to swallow a mess of dependencies as with most gtk or qt applications.

On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:16:00PM -0800, nwmcsween@...il.com wrote:
>> I would try enlightenment, it's a stack that is reasonably portable
>> and utilized within a few embedded projects which IMO is a good fit
>> with musl. A few things need to be fixed within the codebase though
>> specifically the feature macros from what I glanced at.
> 
> Does it have a working text stack? One big problem that led to all of
> the modern desktop bloat is that a large portion of legacy software
> never got past the "character = glyph" myth and thus can't support
> text written in the native languages of nearly half the world's
> population. This allowed GNOME/FDO junk to take over the Linux
> desktop, since it was not politically viable for major distributions
> to say "F you" to entire linguistic groups.
> 
> Rich

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