On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:52 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm confused how this would not negatively impact the user experience, > because things like FreeType and HarfBuzz in Fedora have features and > configuration that are non-default that improve the font rendering > capabilities of applications that link to FreeType. I would rather > have our shared maintenance and evolution of font stuff be reused in > Java too... The rendering is always done in OpenJDK, those libraries are not used for the actual rendering. The generation of glyphs types and the metrics are obtained via those libraries, but it's been ages since the old patented algorithms would produce better quality, and anyway those would not be available in Fedora anyway. There are settings that influence the rendering, which is why sometimes users have worse quality on KDE vs Gnome, but those aren't settings in the libraries, are configurations such as environment variables or gnome properties. If you experience font quality differences, I would pretty much like to know, this would be a bug. They would also be very surprising though, applications such as IntelliJ bundle their own JDKs, I recall once one argument was exactly because of "better" font rendering, which is clearly not an actual argument. Btw, I know this because I fixed a gazillion font related bugs in OpenJDK in the past, most of which in the OpenJDK 6 and 7 era, I rarely ever had to touch 8 or later. Cheers, Mario -- Mario Torre Manager, Software Engineering, OpenJDK 9704 A60C B4BE A8B8 0F30 9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898 Red Hat GmbH, Registered seat: Werner von Siemens Ring 14, D-85630 Grasbrunn, Germany Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen/Munich, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Ryan Barnhart, Charles Cachera, Michael O'Neill, Amy Ross _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
