[gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Ian Phillips]

I've tested with Mozilla

unmask freetype
emerge freetype
emerge -c freetype
emerge pango
emerge gtk+
restart mozilla
    Seems to work OK, but fonts look worse than before. Is this to do
    with hinting?
edited ebuild, adding src_unpack() section from 2.0.9 ebuild
emerge freetype
restart mozilla
    Also fiddled with my subpixel decimation settings, looks better now.
start gimp (1.3)
    Seems to work OK. Can use the type tool without problems.
start gnumeric (1.1.5)
    Seems to work OK. This only really tests the widgets though, since
    the gnumeric canvas dosn't use antialiasing.
start mrproject
    Crashes. Find out that I'm running an older version, so...
emerge -c dev-libs/libmrproject
emerge -c app-office/mrproject
    Seems to work OK.
Log out and log back in again.
    Seems OK. This should test the panel and WM (metacity). They both
    seem OK, although I'm not sure which FT they are using since the
    xfree build includes it's own version.

Actually, the font rendering with FT212 looks better to my eyes that
that of FT209. And the apps I've tried seem to work without trouble.

I think that's all the major apps I have that use FT.

Yours,
Ian. 

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[gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Spider]

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okay, I've done some testing on freetype 2.1.2 

On my x86 system, this build works with pango 1.0.3 and gtk+ 2.0.5

Could other arches please test?

Tests were:
unmask freetype
emerge freetype
emerge -c freetype (no old .so's)
run gedit : worked

emerge pango : worked
emerge gtk+ : worked

thats about it ... more testing is required.


//Spider


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Friday 26 July 2002 19:06, Spider wrote:
> okay, I've done some testing on freetype 2.1.2
>
> On my x86 system, this build works with pango 1.0.3 and gtk+ 2.0.5
>
> Could other arches please test?
>
> Tests were:
> unmask freetype
> emerge freetype
> emerge -c freetype (no old .so's)
> run gedit : worked
>
> emerge pango : worked
> emerge gtk+ : worked
>
> thats about it ... more testing is required.
>

I also tested this freetype lib, and yes, it worked well. But,... for me, my 
fonts in mozilla where butt ugly, so I quickly went back to the old version 
that (with some setting changes) looks a lot better.

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 19:06, Spider wrote:
> okay, I've done some testing on freetype 2.1.2 
> 
> On my x86 system, this build works with pango 1.0.3 and gtk+ 2.0.5
> 
> Could other arches please test?
> 
> Tests were:
> unmask freetype
> emerge freetype
> emerge -c freetype (no old .so's)
> run gedit : worked
> 
> emerge pango : worked
> emerge gtk+ : worked
> 
> thats about it ... more testing is required.
> 
> 

See if nautilus-1.0 works fine.  It did not with freetype-2.1.0.

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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Spider]

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can somone who's not dependant on Gnome 2 please try that too? I'm
hacking some on the naut 1.0.x build to see if I can get it to work (at
least build) in Gnome 2.

though Im not that clear in the head atm..


//Spider. 

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On 27 Jul 2002 21:59:56 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 19:06, Spider wrote:
> > okay, I've done some testing on freetype 2.1.2 
> > 
> > On my x86 system, this build works with pango 1.0.3 and gtk+ 2.0.5
> > 
> > Could other arches please test?
> > 
> > Tests were:
> > unmask freetype
> > emerge freetype
> > emerge -c freetype (no old .so's)
> > run gedit : worked
> > 
> > emerge pango : worked
> > emerge gtk+ : worked
> > 
> > thats about it ... more testing is required.
> > 
> > 
> 
> See if nautilus-1.0 works fine.  It did not with freetype-2.1.0.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Martin Schlemmer
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
> Cape Town, South Africa
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Freetype 2.1.2 test results

[Spider]

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On 27 Jul 2002 21:59:56 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > 
> 
> See if nautilus-1.0 works fine.  It did not with freetype-2.1.0.
> 


Some dep changes, and I had to hack fam .la file as it associated with
/usr/lib/libstdc++.la, something that doesn't exist in my system (I have
to reemerge fam and see if it still borks)

but nautilus 1.0.x  works okay here

//Spider



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