Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:02:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: pav@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! Message-ID: <4309DB10.2000202@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > pav@FreeBSD writes: > > > Andrew Gallatin p=ED=B9e v po 22. 08. 2005 v 09:23 -0400: > > > > > > Try native mozilla/firefox, you will be pleasantly surprised with the > > > > slicky smoothness of fonts delivered by freetype and libXft. > > >=20 > > > I'm sorry, I should have mentioned: Native versins of firefox and > > > other gnomish things (thunderbird) look just as blurry. Xfce menus > > > and title bars look bad, etc. The only fonts which look decent > > > are the 15-year old X11 fonts that xterm and xemacs use. > > > > Ah, so the deal is that you actually don't like the antialiasing > > smoothness we all love. Hmm. > > Maybe it is something wrong with my eyes? > > The odd thing is that when I hook my powerbook to my 1600x1200 lcd, > somehow MacOSX makes fonts look decent. They are still blurry, > but not nearly so bad. > > > www/mozilla port have "Enable Xft font anti-aliasing" option, you could > > try to toggle this off and try it. > > Aha! setenv GDK_USE_XFT 0 will do the same thing at runtime.. This > seems to improve things quite a bit. > > But I just don't see how other people can stand the defaults with > lcd monitors. Antialiasing is used to soften the hard edges of lines, since a computer screen that is clear shows the individual pixels, and most humans don't use blocks and squares to draw a line or curve. Since we are usually used to seeing a smooth line, antialiasing creates that by 'blurring' the edges a bit. I find it much easier to read actually. I'm glad we use an OS and apps that give us the option to do whatever we want! :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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