On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are no > longer applicable. > > > As of very recently, Marik did make one change: subpixel rendering is now > enabled by default in Fedora's freetype package (if you have the latest F29 > updates) at build time, whereas it's still disabled by default upstream. But > it remains disabled at runtime. But I don't think that's due to legal > reasons. I think it's just because that's what Nikolaus prefers. He's an > expert on font rendering, and I'm not, so you'd have to ask him. >
I'm aware of the subpixel rendering enablement, as I tested it and sent a pull request to actually fix the enablement[1]. Unfortunately, a lot of text on the web renders really poorly without rgba subpixel rendering (aka ClearType). It's a lot less noticeable if you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not). But having text look squishy and spaced incorrectly does not make for enjoyable reading... [1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/freetype/pull-request/1 > Another difference is that we disable bitmap fonts at the fontconfig level, > because it's insane not to. That really ought to be changed upstream. > > And Fedora is the only distribution I know of > > that actually actively maintains a very large fontconfig configuration for > every single font. > > > I wasn't aware of this? > We require every font packaged in Fedora to have fontconfig configuration. I know this because I learned about it when I packaged a font a while ago[2]. Most fonts probably have similarly trivial fontconfig config files, but there are some that have more complex ones. [2]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/d-din-fonts -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
