Basically it’s Freetype with subpixel rendering enabled, as states the package information:
This version is compiled with the patented bytecode interpreter and subpixel
rendering enabled. It transparently overrides the system library using
ld.so.conf.d.
Why it’s not this Freetype version included in Fedora 11 by default? I’m not sure, but seems it’s just because patent problems, at least in USA (AFAIK software patents aren’t an issue in Europe, by now).
The only one thing that didn’t work perfectly since I moved to Fedora 11 is font rendering.
After some time playing with Gnome font preferences I got that a 76 dpi resolution and setting the fonts to 12 points made almost everything usable and good looking (I don’t know why GDM is fixed to use 107x107 dpi, and I don’t know how to change this).
But two applications keep showing ugly font rendering: Gwibber (fixed with 1.2 release, now I can setup the font size and ignore system preferences! yay!), and Liferea.
With Liferea I tried to zoom out the text at first, but it also scales the images, so that was a suboptimal solution. I’ve just found a workaround for the problem:
Create a file: $HOME/.liferea_1.6/liferea.css, so the application will load your custom CSS at start up.
Put inside: div { font-size: 10pt; }
Restart Liferea and enjoy.
The default CSS file warns you not to set absolute font sizes, to allow Gnome control default font size from preferences, but I’ve tested different relative values without luck (1.0em is an ugly default, and 0.9em it’s very very small).
I don’t know if this is the right direction to fix this, but it works for me.
I’m very happy with the sound management in Fedora 11. I think it’s the first time I see my laptop’s Intel card work flawlessly out of the box.
I must admit that the first time you see the new Gnome sound preferences dialog, it’s scary. Sometimes I’m not very good at adapting to changes, especially when something works and you don’t see the need for changing.
But when you realize that the integration with Pulseaudio is simply perfect, you start feeling at ease.
Seems that we’re condemned to to live with Pulseaudio, and Fedora 11 it’s doing it really well in my humble opinion.
Thanks you guys! Sound management that just rocks!
