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On 05.03.2013 01:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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 |
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>> latest unstable 2.10.2, and after reboot I was quite unhappy to see |
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>> all my fonts become ugly, well, can't describe exactly, kind of as |
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>> if back in 1980s. (not that antialiasing disappeared or bad |
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>> hinting, it was just the fonts being ugly -- a well antialiased, |
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>> hi-res crap) I don't know the reason, but I don't think the problem |
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>> was in the /etc/fonts/conf.d settings, at least I didn't notice |
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>> major changes after the update (using diff). And all the stuff like |
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>> lcdfilter remained enabled. I didn't have any special settings, |
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>> neither in /etc/fonts/conf.d, nor in my home dir or elsewhere, |
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>> because I really enjoyed the default rendering style. So after all |
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>> I downgraded fontconfig and the fonts' rendering is restored and |
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>> now I enjoy it again, so I deem the issue to be the problem of the |
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>> fontconfig-2.10.2 package. Regardless of whether it's |
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>> configuration- or library-related, with the latter more likely, |
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>> one wouldn't like package updates to break existing setups. P.S. |
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>> 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 |
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>> work with old cache, I believe its ebuild should clear it, |
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>> shouldn't it? |
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> Well, it's probably not fontconfig, it's more likely the GUI |
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> software you use that has issues. |
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It's hard to imagine a modern GUI software rendering fonts bypassing the |
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font rendering engine. It's not kind of pixel-art, you know :) |
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And moreover, see below. |
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> fontconfig-2.10.2 is fine here with KDE-4.10 apps and most of |
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> Mozilla's stuff. |
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I have updated @world to unstable as of the date I was writing, incl. |
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latest KDE and *zillas. |
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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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Yes, it is ALL apps. That's why I almost immediately began to blame |
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fontconfig, and eventually downgraded it. |
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Again, as usual, the problem occurring with my setup is not due to occur |
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with another one's, it might be the stars misaligned corrupting bytes in |
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memory during compilation, or whatever, but the evident cause was |
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fontconfig because otherwise I can't explain how downgrading it did help. |
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Best wishes, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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