How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Vitaliy Margolen]

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