[Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 16:59:03 CEST 2013


On 06/20/2013 04:43 PM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
>> I just created ~/.fonts.conf and managed to set/unset antialias,
>> autohint, hinting and rgba.
>>
>> rgba was the only setting that had no visual effect on ff20.  I tried
>> values none and rgb.  I'll try ff21 and see what happens.
>
> In ff21, rgba=rgb makes a difference, the result looks better than with
> rgba=none.  But I wasn't able to reproduce the old ff20 look.
>
> Meh, bail, revert. ;)

Setting useSystemCairo=true for firefox21Pkgs should have that behaviour 
(which was on x-updates, only for a few days). BTW, by merging x-updates 
default font rendering changed also because the vanilla freetype changed 
a lot.

Vlada


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