Antialiased fonts on terminals is the worst invention since transparents backgrounds.
On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:43, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Greetings. > > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:43:57 +0100 "Galos, David" > <galos...@students.rowan.edu> wrote: >>> you know what sucks about this patch? there is no command line flag to >>> disable aa. whats up. >> >> It never occurred to me that anyone would want aa fonts. This patch >> just prevents FcFontMatch or its family from ever messing aa if it is >> specified in the user pattern. > > I’m using AA fonts – all the time. They look non‐edgy and really, I just > got used to them because I manually enforced aa due to this fontconfig > crap deactivating it in surf, so websites looked edgy. But there’s the > whole problem. Here st is adding a workaround for something fontconfig > and xft should do on their own. If I specify antialias=false, then the > font really should be antialiased. There shouldn’t be any reason for do‐ > ing this manual hack, which is just a hack to work around a misdesign in > fontconfig and xft. > > Anyone here has the abilities or skills to send patches to xft or font‐ > config to fix this mess? > > I don’t have a good gut feeling by adding such a flag to vanilla st be‐ > cause someone stupid from that X* crap pile projects was unable to pro‐ > duce something useful and flexible how it should be. > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann > >
