Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:31:04 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: zaa@zaa.pp.ru Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/119906: [PATCH] LCD filtering for print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/libXft ports Message-ID: <op.t5edt2qf9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200801230610.m0N6A6DA075224@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200801230610.m0N6A6DA075224@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:05:05 -0600, <zaa@zaa.pp.ru> 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 <david <at> 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
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