Greetings. On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:43:57 +0100 "Galos, David" <galos...@students.rowan.edu> wrote: > > you know what sucks about this patch? there is no command line flag to > > disable aa. whats up. > > It never occurred to me that anyone would want aa fonts. This patch > just prevents FcFontMatch or its family from ever messing aa if it is > specified in the user pattern.
I’m using AA fonts – all the time. They look non‐edgy and really, I just got used to them because I manually enforced aa due to this fontconfig crap deactivating it in surf, so websites looked edgy. But there’s the whole problem. Here st is adding a workaround for something fontconfig and xft should do on their own. If I specify antialias=false, then the font really should be antialiased. There shouldn’t be any reason for do‐ ing this manual hack, which is just a hack to work around a misdesign in fontconfig and xft. Anyone here has the abilities or skills to send patches to xft or font‐ config to fix this mess? I don’t have a good gut feeling by adding such a flag to vanilla st be‐ cause someone stupid from that X* crap pile projects was unable to pro‐ duce something useful and flexible how it should be. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
