Re: What backend should be the default now on -nix?

[Fred Kiefer]

Adrian Robert wrote:
>

> On the Xlib back end, is there an obstacle to setting anti-aliased fonts 
> on by default?  I personally only noticed this capability after months, 
> and don't imagine this is that unusual among general users.  Ideally, 
> anti-alias should default to ON, but the code should autodetect if 
> libfreetype is absent in in this case fall back to non-antialiased.

It may be just me that prevented this :-)

Although I implemented the original AA support for xlib (now extended 
with great patches by Derek Zhou. BTW: There is still one I always 
forget to commit) I don't use it myself and this may have blocked it 
from becomming the default. To be honest, I don't liek AA fonts, most of 
the time they just look bad. But if you, and a few others, really want 
them as the default, I don't mind to switch them on, I know how to 
switch them off for myself anyway.
One thing to keep in mind: Our autodetection code for libfreetype is at 
compile time not runtime.

Fred