Bug#1059382: kitty: Text rendering change
Hi Nilesh On 12/24/23 03:19, Nilesh Patra wrote: 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. I'm fine with adding a d/NEWS entry, that is mainly the reason why I reported the bug. I think it's worth a mention because it confused me quite a bit :) Cheers, Wesley -- Wesley Schwengle E: wes...@schwengle.net
Bug#1059382: kitty: Text rendering change
Hi Weasley, On 24 December 2023 8:58:14 am IST, Wesley Schwengle 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
Bug#1059382: kitty: Text rendering change
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. 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. Cheers, Wesley -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'stable-updates'), (10, 'stable-security'), (10, 'oldstable-security'), (10, 'oldoldstable'), (10, 'stable'), (10, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.6.8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages kitty depends on: ii kitty-shell-integration 0.31.0-3 ii kitty-terminfo 0.31.0-3 ii libc62.37-13 ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.10-3 ii libharfbuzz0b8.0.1-1 ii liblcms2-2 2.14-2 ii libpng16-16 1.6.40-2 ii libpython3.113.11.7-2 ii libssl3 3.1.4-2 ii libwayland-client0 1.22.0-2.1 ii libx11-6 2:1.8.7-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.7-1 ii libxcursor1 1:1.2.1-1 ii libxkbcommon-x11-0 1.6.0-1 ii libxkbcommon01.6.0-1 ii libxxhash0 0.8.2-2 ii python3 3.11.6-1 ii python3.11 3.11.7-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg-3 Versions of packages kitty recommends: ii kitty-doc 0.31.0-3 ii libcanberra0 0.30-11 Versions of packages kitty suggests: pn imagemagick -- no debconf information
