How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Roderick Colenbrander]

> Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> >> 2009/3/15 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>:
> >>
> >>> What is so special about Wine why anti-aliasing isn't working for most
> >> users? (it could be a regression) In Stefan his case it started working
> >> after installing a Windows tahoma.ttf. What is so special about this
> font? A
> >> modern Linux system has dozens or hundreds of fonts installed and both
> >> GNOME/KDE can use each font AA'ed without issues.
> >>
> >>
> >> I recently reinstalled this system with Ubuntu 8.10 and its inbuilt
> >> Wine 1.0.1. I then added the budgededicated.com repo to get the
> >> fortnightly snapshots. A string of registry changes enabled smoothed
> >> fonts for me:
> >>
> >>
> http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=20061&sid=6fbbcf362e44a66b310ef88f631c83f5
> >>
> >> However, it's deeply problematic that I had to do this at all instead
> >> of it Just Working when Wine was updated. This is just broken.
> >>
> >>
> >> - d.
> >>
> > 
> > For Stefan (and some others who tried 1.0) I believe it worked on a
> PLAIN
> > 
> wine config without any registry settings. Where these options added after
> 1.0? (I think the subpixel one was) Perhaps these options should appear in
> winecfg or perhaps even be turned on by default and let users disable it
> in
> there if needed.
> > 
> There is already a bug for that:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
> 
> It's back to the discussion of people just breaking stuff and never
> following up to fix it. Because they don't care or it's not their problem.
> 
> Vitaliy
> 

Thanks I hadn't seen the bug report. As far as I understand it, the only issue left is the lack of a default registy settings in wine.inf (and winecfg support) ?

Roderick
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