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Hello gentoo users, |
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Today I updated my system, including fontconfig from 2.9.0 to the latest |
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unstable 2.10.2, and after reboot I was quite unhappy to see all my |
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fonts become ugly, well, can't describe exactly, kind of as if back in |
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1980s. (not that antialiasing disappeared or bad hinting, it was just |
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the fonts being ugly -- a well antialiased, hi-res crap) |
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I don't know the reason, but I don't think the problem was in the |
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/etc/fonts/conf.d settings, at least I didn't notice major changes after |
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the update (using diff). And all the stuff like lcdfilter remained enabled. |
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I didn't have any special settings, neither in /etc/fonts/conf.d, nor in |
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my home dir or elsewhere, because I really enjoyed the default rendering |
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style. |
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So after all I downgraded fontconfig and the fonts' rendering is |
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restored and now I enjoy it again, so I deem the issue to be the problem |
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of the fontconfig-2.10.2 package. Regardless of whether it's |
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configuration- or library-related, with the latter more likely, one |
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wouldn't like package updates to break existing setups. |
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P.S. I've just thought it could be fonts cache which I noticed to |
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contain entries as old as September, but if the new package can not work |
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with old cache, I believe its ebuild should clear it, shouldn't it? |
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Best wishes, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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