John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > >>> I don't know what kind of display you have, but on my LCD it's very >>> obvious that Firefox 2 (on the right) has clear and readable fonts, and >>> Firefox 3 (on the left) has dreadfully muddy ones. >>> >> It wasn't clear which was which, and after years of seeing font bug reports >> & complaints, the only thing that's ever clear is that no one agrees on >> > > Understood, although "same as it was before" is probably a good bet? > > >> Personally, I do think the right box looks clearer, and I wonder if cairo >> isn't passing the same options to Xft that pango does, especially around >> font hinting/LCD optimization/antialiasing. >> > > Any hints on where I might go investigating this? I'm guessing no-one > documented this anywhere :) > > regards > john > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Sounds like something to do with xft... what renders text, cairo, freetype2, or...? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the internals, or the changes. I can't remember which backends they swapped out.
James
