Fwd: LCD patches

[psmith]

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.
>   
omg could it actually be :-O something from ubuntu actually going upstream!

i never thought i'd see the day lol

phil