[Bug 10342] Implement ClearType also known as SubPixel Rendering

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10342


Erik Johnson <junk1112 at new.rr.com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Erik Johnson <junk1112 at new.rr.com>  2008-07-19 23:00:08 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Is this still an issue in current (1.0-rc4 or newer) wine?
> 

Yes, subpixel rendering is still not enabled.  I looked at the WINE code that
manages the font rendering, and grayscale and "no antialiasing" are the only
options.  Subpixel rendering is listed as a to-do on winehq.org and also here:
http://www.winehq.org/site/resources .  In a similar but possibly separate
issue, I'm not entirely sure, but it appears that WINE does its own "brute
force" rendering of fonts, and completely ignores the user's .fonts.conf, or
the system's /etc/fonts/conf.d/* files in how it renders the fonts.  Perhaps
this is somehow required in order to hammer the fonts into the spots where
Windows programs expect them... I don't know.  At the very least, subpixel
rendering would probably solve a lot of users' gripes about WINE and fonts. 
(Do a search in google on "wine" and "subpixel" or "wine" and "cleartype".)

But IMHO, WINE should just be turning all the font rendering over to the user's
system (freetype, xft, etc), under the assumption that the user knows how
he/she wants the fonts to look, and has already configured their system thusly.
 If there is no reason for WINE to override what the user has set on their
system, then it shouldn't.  This prevents WINE from bearing the brunt of any
"legal" issues about subpixel rendering..  it is simply using what the user has
set up on the system.


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