Hi Alan, Thank you for a quick response. I would like just to see same rendering quality in GNOME, as there are in Mac OS X, and from my perspective - WinXP (it's hard to say that but it looks like that Microsoft has better rendering algorithms). Advantage of GNOME is that it is open source and I think more scalable and improvable then closed and proprietary WinXP DLLs. Maybe Microsoft cannot do more with its rendering technology then it already did.
My question was simple - when we could expect that GNOME approach Quartz, if I did not made mistake among software layers :) Regards, Uros -----Original Message----- From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM [mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com] Sent: June 18, 2009 10:29 PM To: Uros Nedic Cc: 'Jan Hnatek'; 'Brian Leonard'; desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] fonts on opensolaris Uros Nedic wrote: > Is it possible that we make better rendering engine for fonts in > future releases of OpenSolaris, even if it means that we have to make > some influence in GNOME? The font rendering engine used in OpenSolaris, like Linux & BSD, is the open source FreeType project - improvements to it should be made in the upstream project so they benefit all users of it (and because they know far more about font rendering than anyone here does, so would be better able to do design & code review and discuss the areas in which improvements can and cannot be made, especially with the tricky minefield of patents around font rendering techniques). http://freetype.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
