From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 17:51:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44C716A403 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from brev.sics.se (brev.sics.se [193.10.64.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0096543D5D for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (P142.sics.se [193.10.66.253]) by brev.sics.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAFHpWNR002551 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:51:33 +0100 Received: from P142.sics.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by P142.sics.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kAFHpVlc002789; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:51:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id kAFHpVPr002788; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:51:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) To: rainer.alves.at.gmail.com@P142.sics.se (Rainer Alves) From: Bengt Ahlgren In-Reply-To: <45357DBE.2060302@gmail.com> (Rainer Alves's message of "Tue Oct 17 18:07:09 2006") References: <20061017225818.GA13470@0lsen.net> <45357DBE.2060302@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:51:30 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING) 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, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:43 -0000 rainer.alves at gmail.com (Rainer Alves) writes: > - For some unknown reason, all my fonts look like crap on > firefox/thunderbird after the gnome upgrade. All TTF fonts are available > as before, but there are some serious problems with anti-aliasing & > hinting, I'm not sure if it's related to the freetype upgrade, or the > X11BASE->LOCALBASE conversion. I've also tried firefox 2.0rc2 > (www/firefox-devel), same crappy fonts. (all other gnome apps have > absolutely no font problems). I don't run the Gnome desktop, but KDE and have the same problem for all KDE apps in addition to firefox. To me it looks like sub-pixel hinting always is off. (I run amd64 on this box, if that matters.) (Posted on the kde-freebsd list without getting any response: http://kf.liquidneon.com/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2006-November/013499.html) Regards, Bengt