| Summary: | Multiple fonts issues from the box | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Alexey Ivanov <krab4t> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | lewyssmith, ouaurelien |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | fontconfig-2.13.93-4.mga8.src.rpm | CVE: | |
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Description
Alexey Ivanov
2021-06-14 05:25:30 CEST
export without #comment :D FREETYPE_PROPERTIES optional but still nice if it was enabled by default. What needed is conf files, but its for fontconfig package not freetype, my bad. Source RPM:
freetype2 =>
fontconfig Thank you for this report.
> Fonts rendering by default on fresh installation are really bad
This is a large statement, and you are the first to make it. The 2 suggestions you make would seem to be essential - but are clearly not.
/etc/profile.d/freetype2.sh does not exist in our systems.
/etc/profile.d/* has nothing for either fontconfig or freetype. Are you saying it could or should have? What file exactly - presumably to contain:
export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=38
It would help if you could post screenshots of something 'really bad' out of the box; and the same sample after your suggested improvement(s).Status:
NEW =>
NEEDINFO Some images to compare, everything in vmware player, IPS monitor 1080p. 1. fresh claudron plasma installation: https://i.imgur.com/9j5X4cP.png 2. with lcddefault and rgb blocks to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: https://i.imgur.com/HasnjgK.png Issue is that on image 1 some letters are thin same are bold (at bottom left madb page look at License line) no consistency. It can be improved with at least default lcdfilter(lcddefault) and hintstyle(hintslight) (plus maybe rgb) settings in /etc/fonts/conf.d (image 2). Another huge issue i see is yellow/blue glow in default font rendering and hintslight fixes it only a bit. So the only way to fix yellow/blue glow is to use hintfull https://i.imgur.com/WgmDwma.png but its for users to decide what hintstyle method they prefer. FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" i noticed that it works only with hintfull https://i.imgur.com/vPT2XkP.png makes fonts thinner windows XP style, and 38 doesn't work so default 40 used. FREETYPE_PROPERTIES is optional and don't needed. And 3rd issue is if ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf doesn't have lcdfilter hintstyle or rgba sections then KDE systemsettings font configuration tool doesn't apply/save them at all. Well thats needs to be fixed in default rpm package with ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf file content. --- and hintslight fixes it only a bit. +++ and hintslight/lcddefault/rgb fixes it only a bit. basically you have LCD sub-pixel smoothing "patch/define" enabled but you don't have them enabled in conf.d files. This is relevant to per LCD display device. Some devices are more LCD density than other. You at least should use under Plasma: systemsettings5 => Appareance => Fonts panel to set RVB subpexilisation and Hinting. We can ship a default preset for all LCD panel in the market. We let user decide. Remark under Mageia 8, this is panel is broken on NVIDIA nonfree driver system. This is fixed in later Plasma release we currently have in Cauldron. CC:
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ouaurelien well i guess im going to use conf files from altlinux fontconfig rpm package as it makes 9,10,11,12px+ fonts better from the box. |
