Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 17:03 -0500, Neal Gompa a écrit : Hi > Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are > no longer applicable. That’s a gross over simplification “render fonts like windows” has long been impossible for legal reasons, but “render fonts like windows” has never been an universal standard the majority of our users subscribe to. You can easily find on the internet decades of rants where windows users state their font rendering is best and others suck, OSX users state the reverse and Linux users are somewhere in the middle (because freetype allows many different rendering styles). Add the Adobe style of rendering that Adobe contributed to the CFF freetype engine some years past to the list. Also, add to the list the fact “render fonts like windows” is not a single style, Microsoft provides several rendering engines of various ages, some devel stack specific, so when people say “render fonts like windows” that means “render fonts like my current windows system and not like other windows systems”. Finally, add to the fact that baring a HiDPI screen, all kinds of font renderings are basically heuristic base and will work better on some fonts and screen resolutions and fail catastrophically on others. So yes there has always been a vocal user minority that asked for our rendering to move to windows style, because they are former windows users accustomed to this style. They've always been told most users did not share their preferences and anyway windows-style rendering was legally encumbered. Since most of them can not imagine others may not share their preferences they concluded it was not the default for legal reasons. But that has never been the only (or principal) reason. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
