On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:49 AM Mario Torre <neug...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:52 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm confused how this would not negatively impact the user experience, > > because things like FreeType and HarfBuzz in Fedora have features and > > configuration that are non-default that improve the font rendering > > capabilities of applications that link to FreeType. I would rather > > have our shared maintenance and evolution of font stuff be reused in > > Java too... > > The rendering is always done in OpenJDK, those libraries are not used > for the actual rendering. > > The generation of glyphs types and the metrics are obtained via those > libraries, but it's been ages since the old patented algorithms would > produce better quality, and anyway those would not be available in > Fedora anyway. > > There are settings that influence the rendering, which is why > sometimes users have worse quality on KDE vs Gnome, but those aren't > settings in the libraries, are configurations such as environment > variables or gnome properties. > > If you experience font quality differences, I would pretty much like > to know, this would be a bug. > > They would also be very surprising though, applications such as > IntelliJ bundle their own JDKs, I recall once one argument was exactly > because of "better" font rendering, which is clearly not an actual > argument. > > Btw, I know this because I fixed a gazillion font related bugs in > OpenJDK in the past, most of which in the OpenJDK 6 and 7 era, I > rarely ever had to touch 8 or later. >
I make my own IntelliJ packages for my own use that rips out their Java runtime and uses Fedora's OpenJDK. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
