On Tuesday 25 October 2011 16:47:26 you wrote:
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.
I think this principle is too rarely used in Linux world. Anyway, is not dropping support for old hardware is just dropping support rather than a bug? Just look at Linux kernel etc. Also note that here discussed only changing the defaults, and not dropping the support for CRTs completely.
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.
I doubt this is possible before the 12.1 release.
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.
As I know, they just have the subpixel rendering enabled, unlike other distros which were fearing the patent threat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org