** Changed in: gnome-control-center
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601818
Title:
Add more font appearance GUI settings
Status in gnome-control-center:
Incomplete
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
Currently gnome-appearance-properties allows to choose the hinting
style to use and the subpixel order.
However, the choice between the autohinter and bytecode interpreter
often has an effect as significant as the hinting style choice, and
thus I think it should be easily available as well.
It could be presented as:
Optimize fonts for on-screen readability
(.) Using the instructions in the font
(.) Using a generic algorithm
The LCD filter is another important option that is not graphically
available. Ideally, it should be possible to actually choose the FIR
filter variance with a slider, instead of having just a few preset
settings: this requires freetype changes. Microsoft has a "ClearType
tuner" tool that does something like this.
Additionally these settings should also be overridable per-font with
the GUI, since many fonts need specific settings to look best, or are
broken under settings that are otherwise good for most fonts.
A generic user-friendly editor for fonts.conf could be the way to go
for this.
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