On 04/03/2013 22:48, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > Hello gentoo users, > > Today I updated my system, including fontconfig from 2.9.0 to the latest > unstable 2.10.2, and after reboot I was quite unhappy to see all my > fonts become ugly, well, can't describe exactly, kind of as if back in > 1980s. (not that antialiasing disappeared or bad hinting, it was just > the fonts being ugly -- a well antialiased, hi-res crap) > I don't know the reason, but I don't think the problem was in the > /etc/fonts/conf.d settings, at least I didn't notice major changes after > the update (using diff). And all the stuff like lcdfilter remained enabled. > I didn't have any special settings, neither in /etc/fonts/conf.d, nor in > my home dir or elsewhere, because I really enjoyed the default rendering > style. > So after all I downgraded fontconfig and the fonts' rendering is > restored and now I enjoy it again, so I deem the issue to be the problem > of the fontconfig-2.10.2 package. Regardless of whether it's > configuration- or library-related, with the latter more likely, one > wouldn't like package updates to break existing setups. > P.S. I've just thought it could be fonts cache which I noticed to > contain entries as old as September, but if the new package can not work > with old cache, I believe its ebuild should clear it, shouldn't it?
Well, it's probably not fontconfig, it's more likely the GUI software you use that has issues. fontconfig-2.10.2 is fine here with KDE-4.10 apps and most of Mozilla's stuff. What GUI software do you run that has issues? And is it ALL apps, or just a few you use often and might notice it more? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
