Can anyone think of any really really good reason for even 
allowing scaled bitmap fonts still?

They are horrendously ugly, and users report this as bugs very 
frequently, which after troubleshooting turns out they had 
something like:

foo/bar/75dpi

in their fontpath instead of:  foo/bar/75dpi:unscaled

IMHO, scaled bitmap font support should either be disabled, or 
should default to being unscaled, and if someone wants scaled 
bitmap fonts they should have to put 75dpi:scaled in the 
fontpath. That would ensure that users that want scaled bitmap 
fonts for whatever ungodly reason, still can do so, however 
normal modern desktops aren't plagued with horrendous looking 
fonts.

I'm considering patching xfs/Xserver/whatever to disable scaled 
bitmap fonts, or to perhaps implement the :scaled thing above.

Comments?



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