On Tuesday 25 October 2011 02:08:52 Takashi Iwai wrote:
Sub-pixel hinting needs that the feature to be anabled in two files Xresources and fonts.conf. This will affect the most applications. Neither of them have subpixel hinting enabled in openSUSE 12.1. I just do not know why. Possibly, some patent issues, or there are people who are against subpixels.
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.
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org