A month ago, I complained about foggy, aliased small fonts in Gnome-3 gnome-terminal. Pictures:
http://wiki.keithl.com/Gnome3rendering Last night I tried using ancient xterm instead; xterm renders the characters properly, presumably using an entirely different rendering chain than gnome-terminal. I also learned that Gnome2 rendered characters with Pango in the Gnome ToolKit, and that Gnome3 renders characters with Harfbuzz. There is still a library of Pango "stubs", but those use Harfbuzz calls for the actual rendering. I don't have time to find and fix the problem right now (my object-oriented coding skills are approximately zero), but Harfbuzz bugs might explain the inferior behavior. Perhaps there is a Harfbuzz expert reading this, who can do some A/B tests and achieve fame and glory by fixing this problem. If I fix it, I'll break something else. ESR's Law: Many eyes make all bugs shallow. KHL's Corrollary: Many programmers make all bugs. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
