On 10/26/06, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:

Hi,

I went ahead and did an upgrade. It appeared to come off without
incident.

I'm not pleased that Firefox was switched out from under me when the
themes and extensions are not yet ready. The new TabMix Plus gloms all
my windows into a single, overloaded window when it restores a session,
e.g. This is quite onerous. Presumably it's a bug that the extension's
author will fix before the final release is made.

What's more troubling is the fact that something has changed with font
rendering and it's a degradation.

With identical font configuration (in the KDE Control Center), my 10.0
installation is clearly superior in an A-B comparison. This was not so
under Alpha5, where they were indistinguishable.

Does anyone know what might be different in this configuration? Fonts
that rendered very clearly under Alpha5 now show unmistakable artifacts
that considerably reduce their legibility and attractiveness. Is it
possible the hint interpreter has been disabled and the simple-minded
anti-aliasing has been substituted? If so, I'll go on record saying
that this is a bad idea, since the TrueType hinting is far superior to
anti-aliasing.

Randall Schulz
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