Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ahmad Samir wrote: > Try setting the lcdfilter in your local fonts.conf ( > ~/.config/fontconfing/fonts.conf); or better yet, try building freetype > with the "spr" patch disabled. This way freetype will use Harmony > (available since freetype 2.8.1 [2]), a technique that offers LCD > rendering usi

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/11/2018 19:31, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 11/11/2018 19:23, Tom Hughes wrote: [] That's interesting because I'm seeing the same thing in F29 but with vertical edges on a non-rotated display! I assumed it was related to subpixel antialiasing being enabled but turning that off doesn't seem

Octave 4.4 update coming soon to rawhide

2018-11-11 Thread Orion Poplawski
I've planning on building octave 4.4 soon (next day or two) in rawhide. I've been building dependent packages here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/scitech/octave4.4/packages/ Anyone in the scitech group can submit builds there if needed. Notes on needed changes to packages are here:

Re: mass-removal of LANG=anything-not-C.UTF-8 in packages

2018-11-11 Thread Joël Krähemann
Hi all, I don't care as long you leave the C locale on the system. http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/gsequencer.git/tree/ags/lib/ags_regex.c?h=2.1.x#n43 FYI: the regexp engine behaves different as providing multi-byte input as with C.UTF-8. In contrary the C locale allows you to do match chara

Attempting to contact unresponsive maintainers: sross, ryansb, mpreisle

2018-11-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for these package maintainers are no longer valid. I'm starting the unresponsive maintainer policy to find out if they are still interested in maintaining their packages (and if so, have them update their email addresses in FAS). If they're not i

Re: libmodulemd is missing from EPEL7 branch

2018-11-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 11/9/18 5:17 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 23:19, Qixiang Wan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This is for an issue we encountered while building Ursa-Major on EPEL7 >> branch [1], the build task failed due to missing libmodulemd, seems >> libmodulemd was retired on EPEL7 becaus

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 11/11/2018 19:23, Tom Hughes wrote: [] That's interesting because I'm seeing the same thing in F29 but with vertical edges on a non-rotated display! I assumed it was related to subpixel antialiasing being enabled but turning that off doesn't seem to help. I'd say it looks more blueish t

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote: > 2. The rest seems to be mostly boilerplate font replacements? Standard > stuff like Arial is already covered by fontconfig/Fedora defaults, other > replacements like Arial Black are not really replacements, but wholesale > changes. A replacement for a font family should

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2018-11-12)

2018-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Raphael Groner wrote: > thanks for pointing to these still open topics but promised since ages. My > vote goes for you and thanks also for your effort. > > It would be really appreciated to see those zombie packages being finally > dropped. > > Promises without fulfillment at any time are just pa

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 17:23 +, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 11/11/2018 17:16, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > > > Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution! > > > > > > With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig e

Re: mass-removal of LANG=anything-not-C.UTF-8 in packages

2018-11-11 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi Zbigniew, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > I'll do a mass update to use C.UTF-8 for the packages in the list that > follows, next week. I'll do test builds locally, and I'll only push to > dist-git if the local builds succeed. Let me know if you want your > package to be excluded. > git

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/11/2018 17:16, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution! With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder if some of the configuration settings currently impl

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution! > > With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder if > some of the configuration settings currently implemented in > https://github.com/silen

[Test-Announce] 2018-11-12 @ ** 16:00 ** UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2018-11-11 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2018-11-12 # Time: ** 16:00 ** UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! We've got some interesting stuff under discussion on the list at the moment, so having a meetin

Fedora Rawhide-20181111.n.0 compose check report

2018-11-11 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 24/142 (x86_64), 6/24 (i386), 1/2 (arm) New failures (same test did not fail in Rawhide-20181110.n.0): ID: 307479 Test: x86_64 Workstation-live-iso desktop_browser URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/307479 ID: 307486 Test: x86_6

Re: Fedora rawhide compose report: 20181111.n.0 changes

2018-11-11 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 01:06:26PM +, Fedora Rawhide Report wrote: > Package: ceph-1:12.2.9-1.fc30 > Old package: ceph-1:12.2.8-1.fc30 > Summary: User space components of the Ceph file system > RPMs: ceph ceph-base ceph-common ceph-fuse ceph-mds ceph-mon ceph-osd > ceph-rado

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 11 novembre 2018 à 12:10 +, Nikolaus Waxweiler a écrit : > > It's also technically (mostly) impossible because Windows and macOS do > correct font rendering (linear alpha blending and gamma correction to > various degrees) which on X11/Wayland currently only Qt5 does (see > screens

Fedora rawhide compose report: 20181111.n.0 changes

2018-11-11 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
OLD: Fedora-Rawhide-20181110.n.0 NEW: Fedora-Rawhide-2018.n.0 = SUMMARY = Added images:0 Dropped images: 2 Added packages: 5 Dropped packages:0 Upgraded packages: 59 Downgraded packages: 0 Size of added packages: 4.87 MiB Size of dropped packages:0 B

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 17:57 -0500, Neal Gompa a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM wrote: > It's a lot less noticeable if > you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not). BTW, those have become pretty cheap last time I looked, some of them are cheaper than many FHD scree

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Nikolaus Waxweiler
I had a quick look at fedora-better-fonts and found this: 1. The defaults in https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts/blob/master/fontconfig-enhanced-defaults/19-enhanced-defaults.conf are redundant. Turning off the autohinter and selecting hintslight... will turn it back on :D The LCD filt

Re: List default packages and propose amendmends

2018-11-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 06:25:20AM -, Anatoli Babenia wrote: > Hello. > > Where can I see the list of packages installed by default in Fedora? The key word is "comps". There is a separate database which stores this information and is used by (some) installer software: https://fedoraproject.

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2018-11-12)

2018-11-11 Thread Raphael Groner
Hi Miro, > 1) Long orphaned packages are not being retired after 6 weeks > 2) FTBFS package are not being orphaned, nor retired thanks for pointing to these still open topics but promised since ages. My vote goes for you and thanks also for your effort. It would be really appreciated to see th

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 17:03 -0500, Neal Gompa a écrit : Hi > Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are > no longer applicable. That’s a gross over simplification “render fonts like windows” has long been impossible for legal reasons, but “render fonts like wi

Re: Better fonts by default?

2018-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 16:43 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org a écrit : > > > > 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? It's not large, fontconfig xml synt