On Monday 17 November 2014 23:05:25 Roger Luedecke wrote:
It should be understood of course in regards to patented or licensed technologies, there is little we can do about that. On the other hand, the font rendering issue is being worked on actually and should be fixed in an update soon.
That's very interesting. Could you give us some spoilers? Also, patents are location-specific, are they not? Is it possible to do some mechanism to provide uncrippled version for locations where those patents are not enforced? On Tuesday 18 November 2014 18:43:02 S. wrote:
I'm aware that the subpixel rendering used by the Infinality project (arguable the best font rendering available for Linux) is patent-encumbered, but in my experience Arch has fonts that are *almost* as good as Infinality, and I'm pretty sure they don't use anything patent-encumbered. In my experience, the DejaVu Sans fonts with "slight" hinting and RGBA antialiasing look pretty nice, even with the default openSUSE fontconfig. So that's an example where considerable improvement could be made in the default openSUSE settings, even within the confines of purely open source solutions.
If I understand correctly, RGBA antialiasing *is* patented technology we are taking about. Hinting patents already expired, so grayscale+hinting can be used freely everywhere. -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org