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["Jack T." <jackt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, December 22, 2014 9:51 pm, Israel wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> Things have gone really well coding!  I have been really focused on just
> doing this (for now) and so I have been able to really concentrate on the
> things I wanted to accomplish and implement them. So I have been able to
> update the Panel configuration tool to be able to add and remove panels,
> and also handle every aspect of it (that I can currently think of...) Also,
> looking through the other parts of code I realized there are a few things
> I have yet to implement... and one of those is some of the
> various options for fonts.  I think initially I will have a grand scheme of
> things to change things for ALL fonts simultaneuosly...  but that is stuff
> like antialiasing.. for the exhaustive list of all the ways you can
> configure fonts http://www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/fonts.shtml#xft
>
>
> I have the general framework to support any of those options in my
> backend.  It seems to be very reliable... but of course some of those
> options are pretty intense and I don't know enough about fonts to know
> what all of that means :P  or what I should implement...  So, if anyone
> cares about fonts, please give me your opinion... I only care about font
> when I am making art... and with coding as long as I can *easily*
> distinguish between l,1,I   I am fine :)
>
> There are a few other updates, but those are boring unless you like c++
> and refactoring and the beauty of OOP.  personally I am excitied, but
> likely not too many here are overly excited about making general functions
> that are smart enough to do lots of things (because they are all similar)
> or the incredible usefulness of overloading functions (so you only have to
> remember 'convert()' will convert a numer to a string, or a string to a
> number)
>
> Anyhow... happy holidays ToriOSidores!!
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
> -Israel
> ToriOS Team
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Thanks for your useful update Israel...I enjoy your enthusiasm...JackT.