Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

James Gregory wrote:

> Because you've brought it up again, I'll put the case forward again. No
> dependencies are better than dependencies, sure. But given the choice
> between a crap GUI and no fullscreen mode, or a nice GUI and fullscreen
> mode but with dependencies, or a nice GUI and fullscreen mode and no
> dependencies but a couple of months of extra coding, which is best?

There is NO indication that you can't have a decent GUI with the PUI toolkit
that TuxKart was originally using.   I explained that fullscreen mode should
be obtainable with PW - but if it couldn't we could modify it to do so (since
I also run the PLIB project - this should be easy).

I wasn't enthusiastic about expanding the scope of the GOTM effort to encompass
a drastically re-engineered GUI - and I think (given the extension of the project
beyond the originally estimated 2 months) that I was correct.  However, *had* I
been interested in doing that, PUI could have done the job perfectly well without
introducing more dependancies.

> As I said already, the use of ttf for in game text was a matter of what
> was easiest, not what is best.

What would have been easiest would have been to use PLIB's font library and not
getting into having to cache fonts and all that nonsense.

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