[Bug 23114] Wine renders the fonts differently from the rest of the system

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23114





--- Comment #7 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2010-06-22 04:08:02 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > > 1. What is the place this "system desktop setting" are taken from?
> > It's Fontconfig.
> > 
> Ok. And how does it relate with "Xft.*" Xresources? Who does take the
> precedence (and why)?

See the fontconfig documentation/source.

> > > 2. Are there any ways to set Wine to use other fonts AA settings than one
> > > detected to be set for the "system desktop"?
> > 
> > That's the strange question, if you know what the bug 17148 is about.
> > 
> As a developer a would thought that that bug was about the _default_ wine
> behavior. Making new behavior mandatory is a major change that I consider to be
> regression. As always my considerations might (and actually does) differ with
> ones the real wine developers have.

Since the Wine behaviour now is configurable by the native means and should
potentially match what other applications do I don't see a problem here.

> > It's not a regression, it's an improvement, otherwise the bug 17148 would not
> > be fixed.
> It's offtop here but that bug is actually not fixed. It is perfectly possible
> to set antialias to "false" in ~/.fonts.conf (resulting in Qt3 and GTK apps to
> stop using font smoothing) and still have got it enabled in wine-1.2-rc4 due to
> Xft.antialias set to "true". Easily reproducible on my workstation, I may
> provide the configuration details and proving screenshots if needed.

If Wine behaviour doesn't match what other Linux applications do that's
another problem, and it's the subject of this bug report.

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