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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: outline-mode is working in tty-only mode, but...
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > It is better to always use the glyphs and let the display code
 > > decide what to do about them.
 > 
 > Generally yes, but the users tend to get upset when they wait some 30
 > seconds for glyphs to come, and then the glyphs do nothing.
 > Especially if their XEmacs has been built without X support, or such.

If we want multi-display support to work, we have to write for it
and we have to live with the consequences of the design.  If
resolving glyphs to image instances is too slow then that is what
we should be improving, rather than kludging around it.

