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

libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
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 distro it would be beneficial if this moment could happen later. One of such examples is libcairo2. The last release by ustream [1] is 1.8.10. At the mom