Ubuntu Hardy's LCD sub-pixel font rendering in Fedora 9

[dhlacik]

Originally Posted by brebs

I don't see that bug - how to reproduce it?

Here's pixman gitweb. Is it this bug?

Well, not easy.

I was continuosly upgrading newer versions of your packages to latest and it worked fine.
Then i installed Fedora 9 i386 to new computer, applied your latest packages and bug is there. I've solved it by installing pixman-0.10.8 from your old/ directory.

Anyway, you are doing great work, thanks to you i love using Fedora 9 as desktop OS.

Regards,

D.

[brebs]

I've updated to cairo-1.7.4.20080909-1 and pixman-0.11.10.20080909-1 - try those.

Edit: On second thoughts, watch the reported bug for a fix.

Edit: I've reverted back to pixman-0.11.8 until the bug is fixed.

Edit: It seems to be fixed. I'll update back to pixman's svn soon.

[brebs]

dhlacik, try pixman-0.11.10.20080911-1 and cairo-1.7.4.20080911-2 - your bug is hopefully fixed.

Edit: Also upgrade to freetype-2.3.7-3, which contains Ubuntu Intrepid's freetype-2.3.7-2ubuntu1

[dhlacik]

Originally Posted by brebs

dhlacik, try pixman-0.11.10.20080911-1 and cairo-1.7.4.20080911-2 - your bug is hopefully fixed.

Edit: Also upgrade to freetype-2.3.7-3, which contains Ubuntu Intrepid's freetype-2.3.7-2ubuntu1

Hello brebs, thanks! it's fixed now yes.

D.

[dhlacik]

Brebs, how often are you updating those packages?

Regards

[ascii79]

I have filed the enchantment in livna.
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2092

Thanx brebs...

[brebs]

dhlacik, there is no set timeframe, as with all open-source software. I wanted to get your bug fixed, which was the reason for my recent flurry of activity. Things seem groovy now, so this might be the last update for F9. After that, I might distro-hop, I honestly don't know.

If bugs or new releases or new features appear before I'm done with F9, I'm probably do the decent thing. News will be posted in this thread.

Originally Posted by ascii79

livna

Interesting. I doubt the request will succeed, because:

* It could certainly be argued that I'm modifying more packages than necessary. I would counter that with the argument that fixing bugs in essentially-related packages is a good thing. But you know how geeks are

* Livna already has freetype-freeworld-2.3.5-6.lvn9.src.rpm - which is out-of-date, but, well, probably mostly shuts up the people like me who find the default font rendering to be sub-par, after seeing what Ubuntu can do.

[Thunder]

I have just installed the new fonts but it doesn't work on my system (Fedora 9). Only in Firefox and Thunderbird (wich have I downloaded from Mozilla) looks the Fonts much better. Any Ideas?

http://imagehost.ircstuff.de/archiv.php?bild=598

[brebs]

Originally Posted by Thunder

Any Ideas?

Yeah. Read this thread, and the large thread on the Gentoo forum, as I've already said. You're not the only one running KDE.

Edit: I'll edit the cairo RPM to add to /etc/X11/Xresources:

Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

For a bit of user-friendliness.

Edit2: OK, use cairo-1.7.4.20080917-1, which contains:

%post
/sbin/ldconfig

grep lcdfilter /etc/X11/Xresources > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
    # Add defaults
    echo -e "\n\n! Ubuntu LCD sub-pixel font rendering:\n!   http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=186789\n!   http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511382.html\n! Choices: lcdnone, lcddefault, lcdlight, lcdlegacy\nXft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" >> /etc/X11/Xresources && echo "/etc/X11/Xresources has been updated to lcddefault."
fi

Edit3: This is now done in the fontconfig pkg, rather than cairo - makes more sense there.

[twilightomni]

Hey, are you certain that modifying the lcdfilter option in .fonts.conf doesn't work?

I run a GNOME desktop but I use Amarok, and it looks to me that setting it to "lcddefault" in /etc/fonts/local.conf does effect Amarok's text rendering.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I've done so far...

1. Install your packages for cairo, fontconfig, pixman, libXft, and freetype. (libXft doesn't seem to have been updated in a few months, but the others I just finished wget-ing.)

2. Set "lcdfilter" options in [wherever they go], and enable the bytecode interpreter in /etc/fonts/local/conf.

3. Enable full hinting and subpixel rendering. Enjoy?

(My main setup is a bit more detailed -- only the Microsoft fonts specifically use BCI, and I turn on BCI only for bold fonts, but that's basically it.)

[brebs]

Originally Posted by twilightomni

Hey, are you certain that modifying the lcdfilter option in .fonts.conf doesn't work?

Who are you asking? Anyway, Xresources definitely works, and ~/.fonts.conf might work just as well these days.

libXft doesn't seem to have been updated in a few months

There's no updates to make - see gitweb. Well, apart from a soname change in the lib filename, which could break other apps.

[twilightomni]

I was asking you, yes. I figured you were in charge of the thread.

That makes sense. I had falsely assumed maybe a new version of libXft had come out -- all those libraries seem to be updated very frequently. But perhaps not just yet.

[brebs]

In case anyone's wondering, I'll be skipping cairo 1.8.0 - it rips out all the lovely subpixel-rendering code

[brebs]

Apparently KDE has an issue with Qt4 due to hintstyle being ignored in Cairo (or maybe just toggling monospace) - I've implemented this patch in cairo-1.7.6.20080929-1

-    if (options->base.hint_style == CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT)
+    options->base.hint_style = CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT;
+
+    if (other->base.hint_style != CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT)

See if it helps with Qt apps, 'cos I don't use them

[fubz]

Hi Brebs

As per my priv message, please can you provide more details as to which patches you've applied to which source RPMs so I can maintain my own set of RPMs.

Thank you.