Re: Help test GNOME 3.28.0 megaupdate

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On 03/16/2018 01:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 11:52 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
>>
>> I'd appreciate a lot if people could give it a quick spin and see if
>> they can find anything that looks like a regression compared to the
>> stable F28 images, and then we can further discuss this at the blocker
>> review meeting on Monday.
> 
> The new version of Cantarell is, by its own authors admission, a
> regression for all practical purposes:
> 
> <madigens[m]> adamw: thanks for the feedback :) cantarell's spacing
> does indeed look a bit funky... in gtk3 and firefox. that's due to a
> missing technical detail called "subpixel positioning". Spacing looks
> more consistent in Qt apps and Chrome. there also isn't any kerning
> yet, so things like AVA, To, etc. look gap-y
> 
> So, it looks fine...except in GTK+ 3 (i.e. basically all of
> Workstation) and Firefox (Workstation's default browser).
> 
> That seems like a problem. :P (Never mind that it just chucks out
> Cyrillic coverage, which the previous version had). Can we consider
> sticking with the old one at least until it's clear if this will be
> cleaned up in time for Final?

Fair enough, that's probably a prudent thing to do. I've split it out
from the rest of the 3.28.0 update now:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.101-1.fc28

-- 
Kalev
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