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On 04/03/2013 22:48, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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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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Well, it's probably not fontconfig, it's more likely the GUI software |
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you use that has issues. |
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fontconfig-2.10.2 is fine here with KDE-4.10 apps and most of Mozilla's |
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stuff. |
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What GUI software do you run that has issues? And is it ALL apps, or |
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just a few you use often and might notice it more? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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