linux-firefox fonts are not as nice as freebsd firefox fonts

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm at gmail.com> (from Thu, 31 Aug 2006  
14:46:02 +0200):

> Here's a screen dump from linux-firefox:
> http://stokholm.dyndns.dk/~lars/tmp/20060831123810.png
>
> And here's one from freebsd firefox:
> http://stokholm.dyndns.dk/~lars/tmp/20060831123930.png
>
> As you can see, the fonts on the first screen dump are not as nice as
> those one the second. Is there anything I can do about it?

The linux fontconfig and freetype libraries we use are older than  
those we use in FreeBSD native. So any differences between our native  
libs and the linux libs are set in stone... more or less. If you find  
newer libs which work with FC4 feel free to send patches (or at least  
pointers).

Any differences in the build-time configuration of the libs (e.g.,  
bytecode interpreter in freetype) are also not something we can change.

Apart from this we try to use the FreeBSD native font configuration  
files, so if you find some which aren't reused (either by using a  
symlink or by "fall-through" to native ones), please tell us about it.

Bye,
Alexander.

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