Re: [ft-devel] How the new lcd filter coefficients in 2.6.2 were choosen?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.05.04 at 10:24 -0400, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> my eyes are happy even after ~8 hours at the monitor!
> >
> > They'll be even happier if toolkits finally implement proper font
> > rendering. Markus alluded to this, and it's nice that Qt 5.9 might ship
> > with it :)
> 
> I have tried setting up gamma in xorg.conf
> https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.xhtml#heading12
> 
> This makes text look great but other graphics especially images are
> just awful. Did anybody else try this?

I would not recommend it.
Just install Qt 5.9 and then all KDE applications will use linear
blended CFF fonts. Chromium just needs a small patch.
And with this setup the two applications that I use most (Konsole +
browser) have very nice text rendering.

-- 
Markus