https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036220
--- Comment #7 from AGS alxgrtnstrngl@gmail.com --- (In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #6)
(In reply to AGS from comment #4)
Akira, unfortunately I think this is a related issue but not exactly a duplicate of the one you mentioned. I don't have a problem with fuzzy fonts. My problem is that on installation Fedora does not configure fonts in a way that makes sense for users with LCD or LED monitors or those running on laptops. While it is true that the desktop environments control font hinting for apps under their direct control other X11 apps that have separate rendering systems are not.
Well, I'd say that is out of the scope of fontconfig and is what desktops takes care. making dependencies to X and/or any hardware specific things in fontconfig isn't a good idea unless there are anything supporting cross-platforms.
Akira, just taking a look at this bug after a long time. I still don't agree with your assertion. System-wide font config is important because apps like Firefox, LiberOffice and Chromium have their own font-rendering and that's directly affected by the systems font config and not the desktop environments own built-in rendering settings. This is also true of older X11 style apps like xterm.
That's why tools like Fedy (http://satya164.github.io/fedy/) are so popular on Fedora. There's a feature to install the "Infinality" font-rendering package that fixes these issues:
https://github.com/satya164/fedy/blob/master/plugins/util/font_rendering.sh
If fonts on Fedora were properly configured out-of-the-box then we wouldn't need such tweaks just to get things to look right.