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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org