At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:47:47 +0400, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Monday 13 February 2012 18:44:02 Marguerite Su wrote:
I sent this email mainly to M17N developers(all kinds of, including myself), because comment area in request is not a good place to gather ideas and suggestions. anyway, it's still an open discussion.
infinality (http://www.infinality.net) is a patch set against Freetype2, especially against its sub-pixel rendering. it's been developed by infinality team and used on Fedora for a long time. so stability is not a problem.
It can significantly improve the display of almost any fonts in openSUSE, especially CJK fonts( they are almost the most complicated font sets in the world) . I've built a package and placed it in home:opensuse_zh, test results gathered from Chinese Community shows welcome. you can test it there.
And really, to be honest, the sub-pixel patch existed in Freetype2 now is a draft work, sometimes a mess. it just enables sub-pixel, but takes no care of how sub-pixel rendering is applied to fonts.
I used Fedora sometimes ago and their sub-pixel rendering was much worser than that on Ubuntu and openSUSE with the same settings.
I have also a similar impression. The infinality patch didn't improve so much about many fonts we're using as default. (For example, freetype2 in M17N:Devel contains some patches.) If it brings some improvements in some area, great, we should take it. But it must be done carefully, not to worsen any others. IIRC, the patch retains the old rendering methods, right? If so, we can take the new rendering, but enables it selectively only for really known working fonts, or make it specific to languages. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org