On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 00:07 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > bash-4.0$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
> > bash-4.0$ ls -al 10*
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          38 Dec 13 01:24 10-autohint.conf
> > -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          43 Dec 13 01:24
> > 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          43 Dec 13 01:24
> > 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          44 Dec 13 01:24
> > 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          44 Dec 13 01:24
> > 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
> 
> We removed them because it didn't make sense to have all of them present,
> since they give conflicting settings - "My pixels are ordered Blue/Green/Red
> left-to-right, and Red/Green/Blue left-to-right, and Blue/Green/Red top to
> bottom and Red/Green/Blue top to bottom." - and the default configuration
> shouldn't assume which is right for your hardware.  Unless your monitor is
> possessed such that it's head is spinning constantly at a high speed, all
> four cannot be true simultaneously.    You should pick the subset that's
> right for your system if you want to customize things with fonts.conf files.

I'm a bit puzzled with the way this thread is going.  Are folks
seriously suggesting that all users should manually create symbolic
links in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ after having installed OpenSolaris as a
prerequisite for having acceptable looking fonts in Firefox?

-Seb


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