Re: [Nautilus-list] Xft Anti-aliasing, Libart antialiasing?

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:47, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> It looks like the gdkxft font is hinted, but the Nautilus one is rendered 
> completely unhinted. You can tell that especially by looking at the i's 
> and the l's. In the Xft rendering these are completely non-aa, since the 
> hinting made them the grid-aligned. The nautilus one is instead blurry on 
> the sides, because the letters are really slightly wider than 1 pixel.

That's what it is. I couldn't put my finger on it.

> I dunno which is best. I'd say the nautilus output looks smother, but the 
> Xft output is more readable. I mean, look at the second 't' in nautilus. 
> It's mostly a blob.

User option! :)

Okay, I'm mostly kidding. But does anyone know if there's a way
to turn hinting off for Xft? I personally prefer the unhinted 
rendering though I expect I'm in the minority among developers.

(Even there, though, I bet people could get used to it. A few
years ago I remember lots of people complaining about how anti-
aliased text of any kind was "blurry".)