Pushing the whole bitmap is much slower over dialup, versus a set of commands.

Yes? But older X code used to use server side font rendering. The move to client side is the new thing. So this still sounds like the original comment got it right, though I guess ordered in a way that might make it ambiguous.

	▲	xantronix 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, I probably could have made it more clear I was referring to the situation in Gtk 2, but I figured it was implicit given that, of Gtk 1 and Gtk 2, only the latter renders text in client-side pixmaps/pixbufs.

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dpassens 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm merely pointing out that you're not disagreeing with GP either.