Subpixel smoothing should default to Full Hinting

[Nicholas]

Binary package hint: fontconfig

Subpixel smoothing is currently the default rendering option. It defaults to Slight Hinting which is really ugly. It should default to Full Hinting instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 19 11:21:08 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fontconfig

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I have reassigned this issue to gnome-control-center instead of fontconfig. BTW, Hinting Slight works fine for my display :) , any way, please could you attach some screenshots for seeing comparations for these options under your system? Thanks

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

"It defaults to Slight Hinting which is really ugly. It should default to Full Hinting instead." is a matter of personal opinion - I find that full hinting looks ugly on all of my displays, so I'm not sure that's a valid reason to request that the default be changed

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Is this bug related to #191654?

[Nicholas (drkoljan)]

Full hinting

[Nicholas (drkoljan)]

Slight hinting

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

I’m sorry you missed the vote that was run by Keybuk on Dev Link forum, when the default was changed the last time. The majority spoke.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=555964

[Nicholas (drkoljan)]

Unfortunately, your link is dead

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

This was the announcement

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss/1791/match=subpixel

The result was Subpixel rendering + Slight hinting.

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

And this was the upload that changed the default:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.changes.intrepid/1098/match=subpixel

Sorry, tastes differ. This is what options are about.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Indeed, thanks for the link. This has already been discussed before, and the situation hasn't changed. If you want to suggest that the default be changed, you should discuss that on a mailing list or open an idea on brainstorm