Public bug reported:
This is a request to the ubuntu-release team to consider a Feature
Freeze Exception for patches to freetype, xft, cairo and gnome-control-
center to enable "sub-pixel rendering" (aka. ClearType) in Ubuntu when
the appropriate option is selected.
More information about ClearType can be read here, which has explanatory
screenshots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
With these patches enabled, the quality of font rendering in Ubuntu
matches that of Windows XP and Mac OS X. We go from the right-most
example in the following screenshot to the middle example:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=43911&d=1190296417
The patches are written by the FreeType upstream David Turner, and
already exist in our freetype copy (but are commented out); the patch
uncomments that option, and adds the necessary same patch to Xft and
Cairo which are in its rendering pipeline.
My reason for wanting this to be in for Beta is that it's a visual
change, and Beta is the first milestone release which gets wide-spread
attention. We need a neutral, wide-spread point of view to decide
whether these patches are "better" or "worse" (since such thing is
highly subjective).
I propose the following:
- upload patches for Beta
- review sometime after Beta, but before Release Candidate
- if there is an overwhelmingly positive response, keep the patches
- if there is an overwhelmingly negative response, reject the patches
- if the response is largely positive, but with highlighted issues or a
significant majority who prefer the older look, we revert the patch for Gutsy
and enable again in Hardy and fix the issues
** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: libcairo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: xft (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: xft (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: libcairo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Enable sub-pixel rendering
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141288
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