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On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:31, foser wrote: |
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> Here you already have a problem, the perception of font quality differs |
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> per-person and language. Some people really dislike AA (requires |
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> different fonts to be good), others use different types of displays, |
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> etc. And not latin language users usually know that they need extra |
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> packs to have decent support, don't expect anything non-latin to look |
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> good by default atm. |
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I think that everyone agrees that ragged fonts are ugly (not rendered as |
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intended). This happens mainly without aa. Personally I use aa for fonts that |
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are outside the "normal range", so I would like that we try to make things |
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look ok with both. |
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For non-latin, I think we should look into making clear what needs to be done |
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for making it look good, which packages should be installed etc. Not all |
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people who would use those fonts know that. |
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> Again this is mostly a personal thing and it currently also depends on |
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> how you install xfree (this is in flux). |
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We can at least identify the misrendered ones. (At least with -core, with qt, |
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and with gtk2/pango). Those should render approximately the same, sometimes |
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they don't. That might be fixable. |
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> > - check the fontconfig, xft configurations |
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> > - list known software that doesn't use the good font systems. |
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> That is not something up to us really, i don't feel it is our duty to |
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> make legacy applications look good, what matters to me is to get a |
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> current desktop (KDE/GNOME/XFCE4) reasonably ok/consistent looking |
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> fontwise (for as far as it isn't). |
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I agree, with the exception that I think that core fonts should be at least |
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reasonable. |
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> > In addition, we can think of making font managment easy for the user. (I |
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> > wrote the font managment tool for mandrakeLinux, he had some working |
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> > features, but uses old font tools). |
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> Ehm, no please. Config defaults should be good enough, users should not |
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> be exposed to this via another GUI. Gnome already has a sufficient font |
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> settings panel and ways to install fonts, so does KDE to my knowledge. I |
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> don't like more ways to set the same thing on the same level (in this |
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> case on GUI level), it is confusing. |
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This should indeed not be a priority. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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