[cairo-bugs] [Bug 34886] Fonts in GTK apps look ugly with LCD patch (from bug 10301)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34886

--- Comment #4 from Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> 2011-03-08 15:51:41 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> That commit replaces a cairo-internal implementation of subpixel filtering with
> the appropriate api calls to freetype. This respects your system settings and
> does
> not work around your freetype library, hence to get subpixel filtering you
> should
> use a freetype library with subpixel enabled.
> 
> Can you confirm if enabling subpexel in freetype fixes your problem?

Yes, using freetype with enabling subpixel rendering at build time, I get
similar looking fonts (similar to the "good" fonts in the attached ^
screenshots) with lcdlegacy filter.

So this is not a bug/regression? .. so now I have to enable a patent-covered
feature in freetype2 to use freetype's legacy subpixel rendering, right?

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