[Fedora-marketing-list] FC6 Reviews

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 09 novembre 2006 à 08:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :

> * Resolution: This is potentially due to the switchover from Bitstream 
> to Dejavu which appears to have exposed a fontconfig bug.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210491

Other bugs complain about Luxi changing between FC5 and FC6 so the
problem is not at the font level (should I saved the bug # I know).
Rather between FC5 and 6 our freetype version saw major changes and got
rid of some code deemed to be related to patented algorithms. The
unencumbered replacement fails badly at low dpi resolutions (not
surprisingly since Fedora is probably the only distro shipping a "pure"
freetype, and I doubt this component saw a lot if review in FC6 test
releases¹)

* Sat Jul 08 2006 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com> 2.2.1-1
- Update to 2.2.1 <- new freetype version
- Remove FreeType 1, to move to extras <- not a small change either

In the case of the reviewer his non-standard laptop res (1280x800) may
be making worse. If FC6 freetype makes mistakes at low dpi but standard
resolutions I can't imagine how bad it may be on exotic ones.

And this is not to say I don't support the move to a freeer freetype or
I think the freetype maintainer is doing a bad job, but I get tired of
seing dejavu blamed for this.

¹ most of the font people only run the full freetype with patented bits
patched in, since the result is so much better than the free one right
now. This was true even before the last round of patent-encumbered
purging. Also I don't think @rh people suffer from low dpi screens.

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Nicolas Mailhot