Hello gentoo users,
Today I updated my system, including fontconfig from 2.9.0 to the latest
unstable 2.10.2, and after reboot I was quite unhappy to see all my
fonts become ugly, well, can't describe exactly, kind of as if back in
1980s. (not that antialiasing disappeared or bad hinting, it was just
the fonts being ugly -- a well antialiased, hi-res crap)
I don't know the reason, but I don't think the problem was in the
/etc/fonts/conf.d settings, at least I didn't notice major changes after
the update (using diff). And all the stuff like lcdfilter remained enabled.
I didn't have any special settings, neither in /etc/fonts/conf.d, nor in
my home dir or elsewhere, because I really enjoyed the default rendering
style.
So after all I downgraded fontconfig and the fonts' rendering is
restored and now I enjoy it again, so I deem the issue to be the problem
of the fontconfig-2.10.2 package. Regardless of whether it's
configuration- or library-related, with the latter more likely, one
wouldn't like package updates to break existing setups.
P.S. I've just thought it could be fonts cache which I noticed to
contain entries as old as September, but if the new package can not work
with old cache, I believe its ebuild should clear it, shouldn't it?
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Best wishes,
Yuri K. Shatroff
