[cairo] Discussion: LCD Filtering API

[Brandon Wright]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Lance Hepler <nlhepler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyways, doing this now will give us the immediate benefit of having these
> improved filtering methods finally upstream, which would be of benefit to
> the unnamed distros that are currently using one version of the 10301 patch
> or another. That, and I'm sure users of those distros that are not using the
> 10301 patches will benefit from/be grateful for the improved font rendering.
> Really, I just want to go the route that will upstream these filtering
> abilities as soon as possible.

I agree. We have a patch that works, why wait for an in-development
feature? The sooner filtering is available, the more time GNOME, etc.
developers have to decide whether/how to include a GUI configuration
for it.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Brandon Wright <bearoso at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you planning to have linearly scaling fonts by default? What will
> cairo users have to do to get results that are native to the platform?

Whoops, sorry. I missed the bit about selection based on the hinting mode.