At Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:16:09 +0400, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
It's because the subpixel rendering is only for LCDs. On other displays (or when setting a wrong value), it causes a problem.
The majority of displays now are LCDs.
This doesn't justify to *break* something working now.
I think only a tiny percent of openSUSE users use CRTs. Appealing to the arguments about market share we should decide whether we should bar introduction of modern technology in favor of a tiny minority that still uses old displays.
Still, it doesn't justify to *force* the setup. You can't break what was working. If you break, it's called a bug. Actually I'm not against to enable it if it's legally OK. But it should be enabled in a more smart way, e.g. via the hardware detection, etc. Statically enabling it sounds wrong.
And, some people do hate the subpixel rendering pretty much, as it leaves some artificial colors.
So, it's still risky to enable it *as default*.
It has been done in Ubuntu for a long time and I did not see much people who hates Ubuntu fonts out there.
How do you know? There are lots of people who hate Ubuntu :)
I am one of them. Nevertheless, Ubuntu has been extensively praised for good fonts. I have many times seen arguments by users that they choose Ubuntu because it has good fonts out of the box, unlike openSUSE.
Basically the deformed font rendering is a bug of autohinter. Honestly speaking, it's pretty counter-productive to discuss which hintstyle to choose just because of the bug. We should go to the direction to fix the bug, ideally together with the upstream. And, if Ubuntu does something black magic that isn't the upstream default, we should try to push it to the upstream first. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org