From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 14:02:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3AA16A41F; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780E343D49; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:02:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7ME2dZ2036957; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:02:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4309DB10.2000202@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:02:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin 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> In-Reply-To: <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1035/Mon Aug 22 06:37:18 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: pav@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:02:42 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------