I looked at the freetype rewrite patches from David Turner (http://david.freetype.org/cairo/fix-freetype-usage-4.patchset), but they do not seem to have the lcd-filtering enhancement proposed here (I saw no FT_Library_SetLcdFilter call). So these two changes should be independent (of course, the patch here might need large adaptations to by applied on top of the freetype rewrite).
I forgot to add:
I looked at the freetype rewrite patches from David Turner (http:// david.freetype. org/cairo/ fix-freetype- usage-4. patchset), but they do not seem to have the lcd-filtering enhancement proposed here (I saw no FT_Library_ SetLcdFilter call). So these two changes should be independent (of course, the patch here might need large adaptations to by applied on top of the freetype rewrite).