On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:16:48AM -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote: > >> I didn't even know this option existed, and man does it look better! > >> Considering 95% of displays are now LCDs should this option be the > >> default? > > For the record, it made things look like utter crap on my display. And > > it's an LCD. If people want it, they can get it. > I'm willing to bet the vast majority will find it looks better, if in > your case, they can turn it off... It depends a lot on your monitor. If you've got relatively large pixels, the colored fringes can be very visible and distracting. If you've got a high-PPI monitor, it can look quite good -- but then, of course, you need it less. I also find that it looks much worse for light text on black background (i.e. old-school terminal windows) than for dark text on light (the typical modern default terminals and most modern web sites). But here's my concern with making it the default: if you get the subpixel layout wrong, it looks very very bad. What percentage of monitors are RGB instead of BGR? (Might it be possible for HAL (or something) to tell the desktop enviroment this?) What about tablets? -- if you rotate the screen 90°, your text is definitely horribly wrong in one of the orientations. <http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/subpixel.php> is useful here, by the way. It'd be nice if the desktop UIs for this option presented a similar test (if indeed there is no good way to get the information automatically.) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
