This darcs patch adds Xft support to XMonad. It consists of two parts: * a thin layer capturing FontStruct and XftFont in an Either type and providing a small set of functions to operate on this new XMonadFont type (implemented in XUtil.hs) * Change Tabbed.hs to be a user of this interface. You need to add the "X11-xft" package to your build-depends in xmonad.cabal (available as darcs repository from http://clemens.endorphin.org/X11-xft/). This is the initial support (but ready for every day use imho). textXMFExtents is not yet perfect, as it doesn't return a useful descent metric (resulting in slightly unaligned tab titles). I'm surely going to be annoyed by this in the next week and will post a follow up patch. But the more importent issues to be discussed are: * Is the Xft feature desired? * If yes, should we kick FontStruct in favour of XftFont? Xft is able to handle Core Fonts as well. And I hope the i18n will go away with this move. Thu Oct 11 13:09:09 CEST 2007 Clemens Fruhwirth * Add Font layer supporting an Xft backend. Make Tabbed.hs a user of this layer.