[Bug 3686] New: Display fonts according to fonts.conf

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3686

           Summary: Display fonts according to fonts.conf
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-gui
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: willie at froq.net


Why doesn't Wine simply try to follow ~/fonts.conf for hinting/ antialiasing/ 
sub-pixel hinting/ substitutes/ excluded range if it exists? I know that Wine 
tries to be smart, guessing what settings would be best, but that's usually 
neither needed nor wanted. That's why there is a config file for stuff like 
that.  
 
Wine simply stands out, because it renders fonts in a completely different 
fashion compared to all native apps (eg, I use medium hinting, no sub-pixel 
hinting and anti-aliasing for native apps, but Wine only uses hinting). Even 
if it would respect those setting, Wine would still look odd, because the font 
size doesn't match at all, but I think that's a different bug/ issue (for Qt/ 
KDE, GTK2, Fox, Java, Enlightenment and Wx, font size 9 is the same - for 
Wine, it's much smaller, about 30% I'd say).  
 
AFAIR, Wine has a XML implementation, couldn't that be used to parse 
fonts.conf?

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