The lcd patches repo is ready for initial inspection. This implements the LCD patches from ubuntu in libxft and cairo. On my end, it noticeably improves font legibility, because I am using a HDMI video connection to my LCD monitor. It was not an issue when I was using VGA, but it is now.
Anyway, I have patched libxft and cairo. There were no patches we needed for freetype, but I did version bump it. fontconfig also has patches, but none of them appear to be necessary. They only provided font rules, really. Here is a sample of my testing of the old lcd filter vs the new lcd filter: http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/ryuo/old-lcd-filter.png http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/ryuo/new-lcd-filter.png I have only been able to get the new filter to activate by providing a manual configuration through .Xdefaults. I shall provide this as well, in the event you wish to test it yourself. The only thing I can think of that is left to do is to determine how to implement this on the UI end so that GNOME, KDE, XFCE can potentially use the new filter. As a side note, the patches permit the configuration to change between the old and the new lcd filters. Here is my .Xdefaults for my test: http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/ryuo/.Xdefaults If you want to test the old filter, simply change the lcddefault on the lcdfilter line to lcdlegacy. That is it for my initial report. Thanks for reading. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
