Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:21 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>> There are legal reasons that Fedora has not distributed those patches
>> before. Those reasons still apply.
>>
> Those patches do not contain any subpixel antialiasing code, they just call
> the freetype LCD filter when it's available. There is no actual subpixel
> antialiasing being done if it's disabled in freetype. In fact, those
> patches even REMOVE hardcoded subpixel filters, in favor of using the
> freetype ones.
>
In that case, as someone said in the bug, they should probably just go
directly upstream. It does seem like a sensible way to do things,
though.
omg could it actually be :-O something from ubuntu actually going upstream!
i never thought i'd see the day lol
phil