How to display AA-Fonts?

Of course there is some work to do. It might be good to utilize Xft but it seems that this project is a bit sleepy. I myself would prefer the direct usage of a free font package. Freetype is the most common and flexible way to choose.

But how get it working.?

1. We need a translation of XLFD to Freetype (or other) font naming conventions. That shouldn't be too hard through a simple map file

2. There much more complex thing is to display the font using an external library. All text displaying Widgets must access this new method (at least when such a font|mode has been selected). I think this should work through reimplementing| modifying some traits functions. Maybe there is some kind of substructure or some prepared fields at Traits level.

Any hints ?

I would appreciate to get this working first as a simple solution/ test mechanism and later as a simple resource selection within openmotif widgets.