Matěj Cepl wrote:
can we hope for the update in F12 as well, please?
Well, that would change the looks of our default DejaVu fonts a lot.
(freetype-freeworld currently disables the BCI for the DejaVu family by
default for that reason, which has always been a controversial move, I'll of
course stop doing that from F13 on.) I'm not convinced this is a good idea
to ship as an update.
> Note that the subpixel stuff remains disabled as it was.
What does this exactly mean? If I have freetype-freeworld installed can
I get rid of it now (well, when this comes to F12)?
If you need subpixel antialiasing, no. I will continue to build freetype-
freeworld packages for the subpixel stuff.
Will we have also cairo and pango (whichever is relevant) upgraded to
use
it?
"It" as in subpixel rendering? There have been patches to Cairo to use the
FreeType subpixel filters, they even remove some probably patent-encumbered
code (dumb subpixel filters) from Cairo itself, but still they haven't been
accepted yet. :-(
As FreeType always provides the relevant APIs, just implemented as dummies
which always return an error, it's perfectly possible to make the decision
whether to use freetype-freeworld's subpixel filters at runtime (e.g. Qt 4
does that).
As for the BCI, it should need no special support from Cairo nor Pango.
Kevin Kofler