Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Marc Ensenbach <gueltigbis22062008@xxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow schrieb:
> That doesn't sound like a constructive suggestion. Let me give you the
> facts:
>  - we won't put agfa-fonts back on our media, the decision to go "nice EULA"
>    is set. Some may love commercial software, but it's a pain in the neck and
>    we (the openSUSE "managers") decided to leave that past behind us

I am not the one to say "by all means, stick to agfa-fonts". I just took
the opportunity to voice my general thoughts about fonts under Linux.

>  - if you dislike the way free software renders free fonts, then I'm afraid
>    you need to get involved in these projects and provide patches or
>    constructive feedback. openSUSE is for most parts only a user of these
>    free parts.

As far as I noticed, openSUSE does a lot to change the default look and
feel of DEs in order to give a better user experience, and I would
appreciate if some more of this work would be spent on fonts and font
rendering. But I see that there is -- as always -- the problem of
limited resources.

I would like to provide some (hopefully constructive) feedback at the
right points, but since I do not know exactly which software parts are
responsable for font rendering, I first want to clarify this aspect by
asking some questions which arose from my observations.

* As far as I noticed, different applications apply different rendering
algorithms (compare e. g. Firefox to OpenOffice under the same DE). How
is this achieved?, and would it for example be possible to use the
algorithm used by OpenOffice also for Firefox?

* Furthermore, I observed that the same application (e. g. Firefox)
renders the same font differently when used under different versions of
SuSE (compare e. g. rendering of DejaVu under Firefox of 10.0 to
rendering of DejaVu under Firefox of 11.0). What parts of the
distribution influence the rendering?, and would it be possible to use
the rendering algorithm of Firefox under 10.0 also for Firefox under 11.0?

I would be glad if someone could answer these questions in order to give
me some insight in the software aspects of font rendering so that I can
give feedback to the right projects.

Regards,

Marc

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