Xft Hack Improves Antialiased Font Rendering

Eugenia writes: "Font antialiasing first made its way to XFree through Qt/KDE only a year ago and GTK+/Gnome followed some time after. Even with the latest version of Freetype 2.08, which reportedly brings better quality, the result is still not up to par with the rendering quality found on some commercial OSes. David Chester has hacked through the Xft library and he achieved an incredibly good quality on antialias rendering under XFree86. With this hack, at last, XFree can deliver similar aesthetic results to Mac OS X's or Windows' rendering engines. Check the two brand-new screenshots ('before' and 'after') at his web page and notice the difference with your own eyes."

Comments

My AA issue

[rosewood]

(I was moded -1 Troll last time I said this, so lets see what happens now)

When I was using X for an extended period of time due to my windows box being gone, the one thing that seriously bugged me were the fonts. I didnt know what was looking wrong with them until I saw a /. thread about AA Fonts and the lack there of in Linux at the time. This is really a great improvement and a much needed one at that. I just want to see this rolled into major releases and thus major distros and fast

Two lines of code

[Saturn49]

Changing two lines of code is news?