Question: Can't we use some platform facility for renderering text on a surface instead of using FreeType?

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

On 17 Apr 2019, at 23:43, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com> wrote:

Somebody should just decide that new version needs to be to back ported.��

Who is the somebody that would decide? If we have to live with Pharo 7.x for the next year (possibly a bit less) - some of the UI fixes would be much appreciated, particularly if its easy to do.

Perhaps if we do a 7.0.4 we might do that?

Tim

p.s. 7.0.3 definitely doesn��t fix the font glitch (sadly), and Guille��s fix cause my image to deadlock for 3-5 minutes when I see it (which might actually be helpful - is it could conform a specific type of problem)