Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-17 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 09 août 2010 à 23:40 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > > Thus I repeat: the subpixel rendering of fonts in current squeeze is > > suboptimal, because instead of providing flexibility and full control > > it virtually

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 09 août 2010 à 23:40 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > Thus I repeat: the subpixel rendering of fonts in current squeeze is > suboptimal, because instead of providing flexibility and full control > it virtually limits the choice of fonts by roughly two families, one > of which is non-

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-15 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Stanislav Maslovski writes: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: >> Backporting the lcdfilter patch to 1.8.10 might be a solution for >> squeeze though. If someone wants to provide a patch that doesn't add any >> new public API I'd be fine with applying it to the unst

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Sebastian Krause wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > > know what does the release team think about it. BTW

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Krause
Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > know what does the release team think about it. BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:31:53PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/09/2010 07:13 PM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > > know what does the release team

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/09/2010 07:13 PM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > know what does the release team think about it. BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debia

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-08-09 at 21:13 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons why many > desktop users switch to other distros. Is it? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:27 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > Thus, getting to the main point of this long e-mail: what are we going > > to do with libcairo2 in squeeze? If we keep it at 1.8.10, I think it > > makes sense to app

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:27 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > plain text document attachment (libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel > rendering.eml) > Hi debian-devel, > > As we all know, squeeze is frozen now. This was a long awaited event, > although for some importans software that we have in the d

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:27:01PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Thus, getting to the main point of this long e-mail: what are we going > to do with libcairo2 in squeeze? If we keep it at 1.8.10, I think it > makes sense to apply the above mentioned patch, because it has been > accepted by up