Hi Weasley,
On 24 December 2023 8:58:14 am IST, Wesley Schwengle <wes...@schwengle.net>
wrote:
>Package: kitty
>Version: 0.31.0-3
>Severity: normal
>X-Debbugs-Cc: wes...@schwengle.net
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>On Debian stable version 0.26.5 of kitty is running, on testing/unstable this
>is 0.31.0. In 0.28.0 a change in text rendering is made by upstream, this is
>mentioned in the changelog.
>
>
>Text rendering change: Use sRGB correct linear gamma blending for nicer font
>rendering and better color accuracy with transparent windows. See the option
>text_composition_strategy for details. The obsolete macos_thicken_font will
>make the font too thick and needs to be removed manually if it is configured.
>(#5969)
>
>I didn't spot it and went in full bisect mode to figure out which commit caused
>it. I found it and could relate it to the Changelog entry.
Thanks for reporting it and taking the time to bisect it as well!
>The issue is that on a dark background with light text everything is made bold,
>whereas previously this was not bold. I think it is wise to inform users that
>`text_composition_strategy legacy` restores the old defaults (similar to the
>version in stable) and/or refer to the manual page:
>
>https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.text_composition_strategy
>
>If kitty can read a system-wide config it might be set there.
It can, but honestly I don't want to diverge from upstream here. Everyone may
not like the said change and enforcing a system wide config for a composition
change isn't something that I'm willing to do.
If you could, please consider opening up an upstream issue to see if we can
reach a common ground. If not, I'll just add a d/NEWS entry informing
users/sysadmin about this change.
Thanks,
Nilesh
