[haiku-development] Re: Haiku Font Rendering
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 18:25:00 -0400
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 5:48 PM chase rayfield <cusbrar1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you can move the font rendering from the CPU into the GPU... all of
the arguments about latency are probably moot.
I don't think anyone would be against that. But GPU font rendering is
still a relatively new things, and AFAIK no major operating systems
uses it yet. Worse still, for Haiku, we just don't have GPU rendering
at all. I'd say let's get first get GPU support, and then GPU
accelerating window compositing before we even worry about font
rendering.
So we will need a decent software font render system for the
foreseeable future, so let's make it as good as we can. There still
seems like there is room for innovation in this space, and most Linux
distros and toolkits still don't get it right, so it could be a place
Haiku sets itself apart. I personally don't want to use Haiku with
ugly fonts.
On another note I also want HiDPI support on Haiku, and I don't think
the current hack of making fonts bigger is a solution, unless it is
done per screen. Otherwise you will get wildly different results on
different screen DPIs. But I suppose Haiku also needs support for more
than one screen at a time before that is a real issue ;)
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Regards,
Ryan
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