Package: libcairo2 Version: 1.8.8-2 Severity: important If I disable subpixel hinting in the KDE menu (or manually in .fonts.conf, this has the same effect), gtk / gnome apps and kde / qt apps show the same font rendering. If I enable subpixel hinting, the qt / kde apps respond to it and look much more beautiful, but the gtk / gnome apps look still the same as without it and seem to completly ignore this setting. I will attach some example pics to show this.
I guess this corresponds to this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#The_original_.22LCD.22_packages and this http://david.freetype.org/lcd/ issue. That's why I put this bug report to libcairo. I switched to sidux from kubuntu recently and I like it much more than kubuntu (faster, the German translation isn't such a mess, ...). But this is one thing I miss from kubuntu: the perfect font rendering. I used kubuntu for several years, The font rendering was always messy, but IIRC in karmic it was really perfect for the first time. Maybe you could check what they do differently? Another thing I encountered: I normally set my fontconfig-config to native, as it looks more beautfiful. But if I use autohinter, the gnome / kde apps ignore my dpi settings set with fix-dpi-kdm---they do not ignore it with native font rendering. Also, if I set hinting to hintmedium or hintfull with native, the kerning seems to be broken or at least the hinting is much too strong---dunno (see google alerts example). I can set hinting to hintslight with native and the this effect doesn't occur. The KDE / Qt fonts look still tolerable sharp then, but the gtk / gnome apps look so ugly then, because of the missing subpixel hinting. If I select autohinter I do not observe this bad kerning effect, but the fonts look much to fuzzy then and I prefer the native rendering. I guess this has nothing to with cairo and is a different issue, but I don't know where else to report it. I don't want to be a nitpicker, but debian is a highly professional distro and I think we should have not only good, but perfect font rendering ;-). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-6.slh.1-sidux-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libcairo2 depends on: ii libc6 2.10.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdirectfb-1.2-0 1.2.8-5 direct frame buffer graphics - sha ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libpixman-1-0 0.16.2-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.40-1 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxcb-render-util0 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-render0 1.4-1 X C Binding, render extension ii libxcb1 1.4-1 X C Binding ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime libcairo2 recommends no packages. libcairo2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
