>>>>> "MAH" == Mike A Harris <mharris@redhat.com> writes: MAH> That's quite odd. Most of the comments I hear from new users MAH> about the font quality in RHL 8.0 is very positive praise. Very MAH> few complaints at all. The font support is definitely of a much higher quality than before, no doubt about that, which is why the problem I was asking about is all the more frustrating. It got better in general, but things that used to look great (like running the M$ fonts with a bytecode-enabled Freetype library) have acquired what I can only describe as significant readability-impairing blurriness. Perhaps my a significant issue is that I and the complaining users are sitting in front of nice crisp LCD panels and like to use small fonts. CRTs don't seem to show the problem as badly. But even there, I'm seeing situations where letters can bleed completely together because the space that would normally be between the letters is instead occupied by a shade of grey. (No screenshot as I'm on vacation and my home machines are still at 7.3 due to this issue.) MAH> However, since we realize different people have different MAH> preferences, we do make things configurable. And since you must MAH> have one default setting, we do have one. It is not possible to MAH> have a single default setting please everyone. I really do understand this. My problems are twofold: 1) The default behavior changed from previous Red Hat versions, in a Red Hat-specific way (via a patch to freetype that was not in the mainline sources at the time). 2) This change was undocumented. I pored over all available documentation and Red Hat specific patches to inside several RPMS of packages that I was having problems with and couldn't find the answer. Fortunately Mr. Taylor provided the necessary enlightenment on this list, and for that I am thankful. My intent was not to complain about the behavior, only to illustrate what I was seeing in the hope that someone would recognize the cause and tell me what the tweak was. Now that I know how to turn it off, I'm perfectly happy to go away and trouble you good folks no further. - J< _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
