Re: FC5 & Dell 2007FPW - Anybody got widescreen? - Almost solved..

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Em Quarta 05 Julho 2006 13:07, Tim escreveu:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:28 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > This monitor is an LCD one, right? Did you configure X to use
> > sub-pixel font rendering? Text doesn't look nice in LCD monitors
> > without this.
>
> Just to be picky, that's not necessarily the case.  LCDs can show fonts
> quite nicely without it.  But if you're using a system that draws fonts
> in an ugly manner without it (e.g. FC3, FC4, haven't tested FC5), yes
> it's the case.  It seems to be the design of the fonts used by Fedora,
> as well as the font rendering system.  Other things can draw very neat
> looking fonts that only occupy one pixel width.

Yes, some systems display fonts better than others without sub-pixel 
rendering.
However, I'm yet to see a system, Linux or not, in which text will not look 
nicer on LCDs after setting up sub-pixel rendering. When it's well 
configured, the difference is huge, specially on small fonts.

[]'s
Marcelo

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