Re: [ft-devel] Something in 2.6.4 broke my windows (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 138, Issue 9)

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> I don't seem to have the very beginning of this thread so it is a bit
> difficult to see what's going on, anyway, there are a few things I
> like to respond to...

That's because Martin sent me a private mail first that I quoted and 
CC'd to the mailing list. I figured I'd have complaints like that sooner 
or later, anyway, so I wanted to discuss them publicly.

> That's not true - BTW, I keep my wine installation quite up to date
> to wine's bi-weekly release schedule. My wine install has a couple of
> permanently-non-streamed patches, so I upgrade about once a month.
> Wine has had its own version of the MS fonts for many years now. They
> work okay, and are metric-identical to their genuine counter parts, I
> think. [...]

Okay, so I actually wanted to say that the Wine packages I know usually 
pull in the old core web fonts, so lots of users have them.

> That was what I was commenting on a few days ago - while it is nice
> to merge all the hard work - it seems  a bit drastic to switch it on
> by default.

To quote myself: "The new look has the objective advantage that 
different fonts render much more harmoniously even when the hinting is 
shoddy by discarding an entire axis that happens to be important for 
horizontal text like what you're reading right now. That's why I think 
it's the objectively better choice for a default". Millions of Windows 
users look at similar font rendering every day. I know it's a jarring 
change to users that are used to what was previously, but I think it's a 
necessary step because the old way was unsatisfactory in several ways.

> The original poster appears to want it system-wide, from the later
> post :-). I think he needs my patch above...

Or set the variable system-wide ;)