Fwd: LCD patches

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 04/17/2009 01:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:21 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> There are legal reasons that Fedora has not distributed those patches
>>> before. Those reasons still apply.
>> Those patches do not contain any subpixel antialiasing code, they just call
>> the freetype LCD filter when it's available. There is no actual subpixel
>> antialiasing being done if it's disabled in freetype. In fact, those
>> patches even REMOVE hardcoded subpixel filters, in favor of using the
>> freetype ones.
>
> In that case, as someone said in the bug, they should probably just go
> directly upstream. It does seem like a sensible way to do things,
> though.

Now I remember.  Quick update on this.  These patches *almost* went into cairo 
1.8, but were taken out at the release point by the benevolent 
dictator^Wmaintainer.  He had valid concerns.  I'll try to address them and 
have the feature added into cairo 1.10.

behdad