On Friday 16 March 2001 08:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Friday 16 March 2001 04:27, Claudio (sekko) wrote:
> > > My question is: in incoming 8.0 will antialiasing work? Anyway it could
> > > be really usefull to clean up this option if possible, or (at least) to
> > > leave it off by default! Thanks,
> >
> > Antialiasing works now, so why should it not work with 8.0?
>
> It does not yet work by default.
Agreed.
> Although it can be made to work for most people, font antialiasing is still
> an alpha feature from the unsupported tree of XFree86.
> It breaks heavily if you don't install any Truetype/Type1 fonts or have
> the wrong graphics card, like dual head Matrox, iirc.
I've got a dual-head G450, although I'm using only one display. Mine works
fine.
> Each of this is enough justification _not_ to enable it by default. Users
> will complain.
Also agreed. It has to work out of the box, which I'll admit it doesn't do
yet. However, it can be made to work out of the box, which could be better
than leaving it disabled.
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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