On 11 May 2011 05:57, Zé <[email protected]> wrote: > In mandriva sincepatent expiration in freetype, fonts display wasnt > smoth anymore and appeared ugly fonts, this used to exist just in > plf.. > > But since theres no patents issues pending, why not old rendering > algorithms by default (disable bytecode interpreter),
Because upstream enables them by default, and they do know more about their own code. > that way fonts > will have a better rendering and look. > Different people, different eyes, different preferences. What looks good to you doesn't necessarily look good for the rest of the population :) > This is most true for guys that are used to use small fonts, for > example im used to use Sans size 8, like its now in mageia, they dont > look very good and also appear smaller that if using bytecode > interpreter disabled, so to be able to have a good rendering font > look, i always repackage freetype2. > Same as above, I think. And since you can spin your own packages so it's not a problem for you... > Why not Mageia start using also bytecode interpreter disabled by default? > -- > Zé > -- Ahmad Samir
