Cairo [was: rawhide report: 20050621 changes]

[Owen Taylor]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:51 +0200, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:13:08PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Apart from that: does it work or does it break all sorts of things?
> 
> In addition to the Firefox problem already reported, I noticed
> differences in font rendering - but then I am one of those whiners that
> complain about Arial being a cheap imitation of Helvetica.
> 
> The panel seems to have hinting enabled, even if it's disabled in my
> preferences. I use non-standard fonts and they look much better if no
> hints are applied. You can see the same with Bitstream Charter (part of
> fonts-xorg-base).
> 
> The second curious thing I noticed is that changes in hinting in the
> font preferences are not reflected on screen in realtime as they used
> to. Actually, #2 might be the explanation for #1: is hinting enabled by
> default, if gconfd is not running yet? It could be that the panel gets
> started before gconfd and thus gets stuck with whatever are the defaults
> for font hinting (the font family is right, though).

Yep, this stuff is all known.

"Just a matter of a bit of coding"

Regards,
						Owen

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