Re: [ft-devel] Announcing FreeType 2.6.2

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> > Thank you, I enjoyed it and noticed a typo: auto-shinter.
>
> Perhaps, you are right, Ubuntu cares about the font appearance the
> most. If you get them on board, the rest will follow. Do you know
> anybody?

Yeah, I noticed the typo, too ;) Notified Werner.

I sadly don't know any Ubuntu-eans. What exactly should they get on 
board about? Linear alpha blending and gamma correction? Afaik, the 
Unity 7 desktop relies on GTK->cairo for font rendering and cairo is 
still missing LAB+GC infrastructure, Behdad said something about this 
being more complicated though. Not idea if Canonical is even interested 
in contributing something there if they want to move to Unity 8 on Qt... 
But oh well. Maybe I'll try to reach someone from the design team.

What's still preventing libraries from really picking up the stem 
darkening capability is that there's no official stable API that works 
on FT_Library level for all font engines. And I have no experience with 
API design and may be short on time in at least the near future. Hm.