Rawhide updates & Fonts

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sat Jul 23 20:40:17 UTC 2005


Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 16:19 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> 
>>Mike Chambers wrote:
>>
>>>With a fully updated FC4 + full rawhide updates, are the fonts still as
>>>messed up as they have been recently, especially in evolution and
>>>firefox (even with the alpha one?)?
>>
>>Describe "messed up."  The only issue I'm aware of exists when using FC4-updates packages, which apparently happens in some occasions (some yum mirror picks up the FC4 update changes before it picks up the rawhide changes?)
> 
> 
> Do the fonts still render diff/not as good with the (cairo?) changes
> that are taking place?  In other words, do they still not look quite as
> good from rawhide as the previous Fedora releases?

Still not as good?  As far as I know, they have always looked fine.  I've not seen any complaints in bugzilla.  Not sure where the idea is coming from that the quality of fonts has been deteriorating.




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