Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > This made my current fonts really hard to read... > > > > > > > I don't think we should change the fontconfig defaults to match some > > developpers personnal tastes. > > I never said we should :-) > I only mentionned this because I can bet some people will ask|complain why > their fonts in 5.9 are ugly -- that's all. > > > Fonts appearance are a lot a matter of personal preferences. So it's > > ok to need to tweak some buttons if you're not happy with the defaults. > > Sure, and that's what I do. > > > What application(s) is(are) affected ? > > At least, all gtk3 apps. > > > Which font and font size is it ? > > Small(er) fonts; size 8 and below. > > > Personnally I do indeed prefer autohinting for small DejaVu Mono > > fonts. So I've set that in my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf file: > > Yeah, I use something similar. > I know how to work with that stuff; I am just saying that this small commit > does have a real obvious effect on the display. >
Maybe we should enable the autohinter only for such small fonts? The default did it always? Certainly it was screwing up size 16 or so fonts. Can we make a new file 10-small-autohint like Matthieu has for a new default?
