[haiku-development] freetype2 and font antialiasing
- From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 13:43:08 +0200
Hello,
There was a lengthy discussion on antialiasing for font rendering as a
GSoC project on the OpenBeOS list. I wonder, it appears that
installing the latest CVS version of freetype2 (with no code changes
or special configure options) improves/changes the appearance of fonts
in Haiku after reboot, especially I notice that the "1" in Terminal's
caption looks bolder, with a softer 'border'. If I move my
libfreetype.so symlink away, after restart it is back to the old
appearance.
i) Should Haiku really pick up libraries in /boot/home/config/lib for
such use?
ii) Might Haiku need to update its in-tree freetype2?
And as pointed out in #1739, the Development Optional Package includes
a symlink for libfreetype.so but not the headers, and as I now found
out, some software packages also need its freetype-config app and the
pkg-config files to detect and use it. Are people expected to use
their own version of freetype2? That might bear the danger of breaking
the system if the self-compiled version becomes inusable, when it is
being picked up by the system.
Regards,
Andreas
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