The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some

[pal666]

Setting hintstyle per font family is not an issue for me but most average people would prefer not to dig this deep into making everything work out of the box like it works in less advanced OSes like Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS.

most average people will not use ms fonts on linux, they will use default fonts which work great out of the box. all your pain is self-inflicted(as usual). and those other oses all have "unusable" fonts by your definitions, i.e. the crazy one is you, everyone else is happy

[kcrudup]

but most average people would prefer not to dig this deep into making everything work out of the box

Well, neither I nor literally none of the Linux devs I've worked with for years couldn't care less, much less knew that there's some "problem' with fonts. I have no idea what the issue in this thread is about, TBH ...

[pal666]

Is Red Hat trying to kill the Linux world? Please, mr Larabel, let me say: FUCK YOU red hat for all the shit you are trying to put in the Linux world.

imbecile, redhat is trying to catch up with all other modern operating systems. and of course, fuck you for doing nothing for linux but spewing poison

[pal666]

I love Linux for it's simplicity and it's principles, but this is why proprietary software will always win, because they care for what the users want.

i love linux users, but why most of them are imbeciles? proprietary software did pango change many years ago

I don't want to become an Apple fanboy just to have a clear desktop on my 1,500 dollars PC laptop.

see, imbecile? apple never had feature which was removed from pango, but you are happy because you are apple's anal slave

[pal666]

That sick, arrogant shit can only come from a facepuke employee

and what kind of shit comes from you? how many commits to pango or harfbuzz? maybe money for someone else to produce them? no? just imbecilic forum posts?

[pal666]

So regarding the desktop we have the same situation as many times, where developers don't care about the users.

developers do care about users. developers do not care about loud imbeciles. nobody cares about them, not even ms or apple, but you have to be non-imbecile to understand that(but somehow you that doesn't stop you from being cto, lol)

[pal666]

Linux style, guys.
Indeed, it is more profitable not to fill your brain with all sorts of nonsense and buy a Windows 10 license.

yes, average person will buy windows 10 license to pay for unhinted fonts because he doesn't like unhinted fonts, but only if they are free

[pal666]

I'm just a mere user, but I consider rude to say others to use HiDiPi instead.

nobody said that

This makes me reconsider to use Linux ecosystem as a desktop platform, seriously.

sadly average linux user is not very smart, because he threatens to switch to platform with unhinted fonts because linux switched to unhinted fonts

I think there should be greater efforts, more manpower and better consensus at text rendering.

so what did you do for that?

I would love to happen that only one library/subsystem be used by all major players, then concentrate on making it have all the desired features.

harfbuzz is used by everyone already

[pal666]

Also, some people absolutely need to work with documents created in Windows and your proposal no longer applies to them

libreoffice doesn't use pango(but does use harfbuzz), so subj doesn't affect it. see, you have no excuses

[tildearrow]

nobody said that

did you even read the article?

one of the developers indirectly said that:

if non-bitmap fonts are destroying my sight, then i'd fork some cash and get myself a high-dpi screen not whine here about people not doing work for me. i do value my eye sight after all.