[Bug 668686] New: Terribly ugly font rendering on openSUSE 11.4 M6
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686#c0 Summary: Terribly ugly font rendering on openSUSE 11.4 M6 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Milestone 6 of 6 Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bummmm@mailinator.com QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.215 Safari/534.10 Hi, I just tried out openSUSE 11.4 M6 on my Acer 4810T laptop. I am currently running 11.3 on it, and I had to apply the subpixel patches to get nice smooth fonts. Now that the patent issue has expired, I was hoping to see nice smooth fonts by default in openSUSE 11.4. But unfortunately they're terribly ugly still, in KDE, Firefox, and LibreOffice. I would say they are unusably ugly in fact. This leaves the user with a very bad first impression of the OS. This is true even when comparing openSUSE with other Linux distros like Ubuntu, which have beutiful, smooth fonts right out of the box. I hope this can be fixed for the release. Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at your screen. 2. Grimace 3. Repeat step #1 Actual Results: I grimace. Expected Results: I smile. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686#c1 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2011-02-01 20:18:39 UTC --- The subpixel rendering patent is unrelated to the TrueType bytecode patent. http://www.freetype.org/patents.html Ubuntu taking the risk being sued by MS doesn't necessarily mean openSUSE, i.e. Novell also needs to take this risk. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686#c2 Ismail Donmez <ismail@namtrac.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |cfarrell@novell.com, | |ismail@namtrac.org Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #2 from Ismail Donmez <ismail@namtrac.org> 2011-03-14 15:51:53 UTC --- I believe subpixel hinting does not infringe on patents because it uses a home-made color filtering algorithm. Adding cfarrell@ for a legal opinion on this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686#c7 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|X.Org |X11 Applications AssignedTo|bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.pr |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. |qa@suse.de |provo.novell.com | --- Comment #7 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2011-03-17 14:49:05 UTC --- Wrong component. freetype is unrelated to X.Org. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668686#c zj jia <zjjia@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zjjia@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |nadvornik@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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