Cairo [was: rawhide report: 20050621 changes]

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 6/23/05, Rudi Chiarito <nutello at sweetness.com> wrote:
> The panel seems to have hinting enabled, even if it's disabled in my
> preferences. I use non-standard fonts and they look much better if no
> hints are applied. You can see the same with Bitstream Charter (part of
> fonts-xorg-base).
> 
> The second curious thing I noticed is that changes in hinting in the
> font preferences are not reflected on screen in realtime as they used
> to. Actually, #2 might be the explanation for #1: is hinting enabled by
> default, if gconfd is not running yet? It could be that the panel gets
> started before gconfd and thus gets stuck with whatever are the defaults
> for font hinting (the font family is right, though).

I'd love to see a screenshot.. preferable marked up.. showing the
pamel problem as compared to the application font hinting.

-jef