Am 26.09.2007 um 12:26 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > On Sep 21, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Alex Jones wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: >>> >>> Very small (12px in height and less) Monospace fonts (such as >>> those used by gnome-terminal) will not be rendered this way >>> because several users have expressed dislike of the effect; if >>> you want to see whether you prefer them with the effect, remove >>> the /etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf symbolic link and >>> restart gnome-terminal (you need to close them all to do this). >> >> I really, really can't help but feel that we are making a mess of >> this by specifically singling out Bitstream Vera Mono. >> >> Other fonts have single-pixel-wide stems too, and at many >> different sizes, and in many different configurations of size and >> hinting settings. > > If this problem is specific to the terminal, perhaps a better > solution would be radio buttons in gnome-terminal's preferences.
It's specific to small glyphs (rendered fonts). Even Mac OS X features a user-visible threshold for disabling font smoothing. It's set to 9 pixels by default. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
