Fedora 12 Three-clicks Experience

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:37 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 07:41 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Fonts: LCD panel wasn't detected for sub-pixel rendering; fonts are blurry
> > > by default. Overall font quality is poor in contrast to default install of
> > > competitors' distros.
> > 
> > Now, that the nasty patents expired we should be able to get better
> > looking fonts in F13.
> > 
> > I should ping bedhad to do that.
> 
> 'Nicer' is subjective. I don't actually like the patented rendering, I
> prefer the non-patented. The above isn't actually referring to the
> patented stuff, anyway - just whether subpixel hinting is enabled by
> default. I think it's a sensible idea; surely LCD displays are
> sufficiently widely used by now that we could default to subpixel
> hinting in the GNOME font configuration, and that would be the best
> choice for the majority of users?

This is probably worthwhile, though I'd like to get it right for the
inevitable day when some other display technology displaces LCDs too.
RANDR and KMS have this information though; we could just look at the
subpixel properties of the connected outputs.

- ajax
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