I do not understand what you mean by "settings work". It's the developpers who choose settings and offer them to the user, settings just mean what they want to. Settings work when they do what the developper meant them to do, and now it's the case. Slight and Medium hinting are supposed to look the same, and Full hinting is different. I'm not sure if it's directly related, but cairo used to have a different behavior than xft, it didn't interpret font rendering settings the same way, and now it has been fixed. However, this problem remains in edgy, not all apps render smooth / blurred fonts when Medium hinting is used. I don't know if its fonts related libs are up to date. By the way, slight and medium hinting forces use of autohinting. If you get sharp fonts with full hinting, it's because you're using the bytecode interpreter, which is patented. If you think this is fine and should be the default, then just ask that full hinting is used by default.
-- [edgy] extremely bold ttf fonts in kubuntu (edgy) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61331 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
