From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 19:30:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41FA16A41A for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao107.cox.net (eastrmmtao107.cox.net [68.230.240.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788A213C447 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080123193015.BWQF8815.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:30:15 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id gjV41Y00N4iy4EG0000000; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:29:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:31:04 -0600 To: zaa@zaa.pp.ru From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200801230610.m0N6A6DA075224@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200801230610.m0N6A6DA075224@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.25 (Linux) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/119906: [PATCH] LCD filtering for print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/libXft ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:16 -0000 On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:05:05 -0600, wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:12:43AM +0000, mezz@FreeBSD.org wrote: >> We normal don't want to maintain any unoffical patches on our own = >> unless we >> have to. After looked at a few of bugzilla and mailing list, it's not= = >> complete >> ready and they are still tweaking. These libraries are maintaining ve= ry = >> well >> by upstream, so when patches are ready and these will be in the relea= se >> tarball. > > Actually, as far as I understood David Turner freetype.org= > > said that Microsoft has several patents covering the ClearType = > "technology", > so it is very unlikely that the patches will be included into freetype= 2, Actually, the LCD filtering is already in freetype2 2.3.x, but it is = disabled by default if you read in your own patch and links that you hav= e = provided. :-) We shouldn't have any problem to add this option in = freetype2. > libXft, cairo, etc. For example, Ubuntu developers maintain the pathes= on > their own for quite a while. As for the libXft and cairo, so far from what I have read in bugzilla an= d = mailing list. They are still discuss on how to add in libXft and cairo i= n = better way. As for the fontconfig, it's already in the SVN (from comment= = in bugzilla, 2008-01-22 16:20:04 PST). See here: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D10301#c32 The LCD filtering stuff are coming. :-) In MC CVS, we have fontconfig 2.= 5 = (will be 2.6 later) so I guess it will be coming with GNOME 2.22. > Anyway, thank you for consideration and all the best to FreeBSD projec= t. No problem, if you still want to add LCD filtering option in freetype2, = I = will be happy to add it. It won't works until other libraries have LCD = filtering option, right? If so, then I guess we can wait. Cheers, Mezz -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org