On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Daniel Blueman wrote:
Most users may not know why their anti-aliased fonts look ugly.
The problem is that the XFree86 4.x sources contain quite an old version of
libfreetype, causing this. Yuk!
To override it, install the current freetype 2.1.4 libraries in /usr/lib,
which usually get searched before the /usr/X11R6/lib directory; fonts in apps
that use freetype (eg Gnome 2 + KDE 3) look *far* clearer and legible when
much smaller!
Anyone have any idea how hard it is to get freetype into the cygwin distro
tree?
Dna
http://cygwin.com/setup.html.
Normally, you'd propose the ITP on cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, and go
from there (it's a packaging and functionality review process, plus
voting). However, your package is tied to XFree86, so, according to
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00043.html, it should be
approved (voted for?) on this list (cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com).
I'm sure people on cygwin-apps will review the packaging anyway if you
submit the ITP there.
Igor
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