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achaphiv
create a build for Ubuntu 20
Hi. I'm really sorry to bother you again but could you, please, create a build for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
Just installed it and fonts rendering is still not (as) good.
Please, save us!
Current status: I need an updated patch for freetype 2.10.1.
I'm currently busy with work, so this might be another week or two.
@achaphiv Sorry for bothering. I guess you are still busy. This is just a reminder to pop in your mailbox.
As usual, debian package is convoluted.
But, the build seems to have gone through:
https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/19316987
@achaphiv Thanks! Installed and it seems to be working!
Thanks a lot, sir! You saved a day (AGAIN)!!!
@achaphiv QQ: I noticed slight changes in the way it operates compared to the previous version.
Was there a change in the rendering/hinting approach?
At first it felt as if it was "muddier" but when I looked closer it turned out that it was just my perception while rendering (I'm using Hinted Noto fonts all over the place).
At times it also seems like there is more "shade" near vertical stems than before.
And also stems seem to become thinner (I'm using "linux" style and an INFINALITY setting in /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh.
Could you, please, clarify if that's expected?
currently he's only providing the freetype library with infinality patches, not any altered fontconfig files. Generally I don't even bother with those because they make my head spin. I see that the INFINALITY environment variable name has been changed to INFINALITY_FT in the latest version of the infinality-settings.sh file (see https://github.com/pdeljanov/infinality-remix/blob/master/freetype2-infinality-remix/infinality-settings.sh) but changing it doesn't seem to have any effect for me, not sure why...
currently he's only providing the freetype library with infinality patches, not any altered fontconfig files. Generally I don't even bother with those because they make my head spin. I see that the INFINALITY environment variable name has been changed to INFINALITY_FT in the latest version of the infinality-settings.sh file (see https://github.com/pdeljanov/infinality-remix/blob/master/freetype2-infinality-remix/infinality-settings.sh) but changing it doesn't seem to have any effect for me, not sure why...
@greatquux
You are right: fontconfig-infinality package is missing: the only one available is libfreetype6.
@achaphiv Could you, please, build it for U20 too?
@greatquux I was using scripts from fontconfig-infinality which are slightly different from the one you referenced above.
@achaphiv I cleaned up the fontconfig-infinality (by mistake) which remained from 19.10. I backed up the infinality-settings.sh and after manually putting it in /etc/profile.d/ I could clearly see a difference (compared to using "naked" libfreetype6 without tweaking) and this is the best result I saw so far with this new build.
Namely
sudo /etc/fonts/infinality/infctl.sh setstyle -> choose "linux"
was making fonts look worse.
The only issue right now Chrome's and Slack's fonts rendering.
In particular how Chrome displays gmail page:
Look at this ugliest spacing between letters of the same word.
Here is the same email subject as rendered by Firefox:
In the Slack letter i is rendered ugly:
See how dot is has an offset to the right.
However except for that fonts look pretty sexy in general:
The Chrome issue (and Slack, which uses Electron, which is Chromium-based) is because they use their own bundled freetype library: https://github.com/pdeljanov/infinality-remix/issues/3
The Chrome issue (and Slack, which uses Electron, which is Chromium-based) is because they use their own bundled freetype library: pdeljanov/infinality-remix#3
Thanks! Interestingly the OSS Chromium does much better.
I stopped building fontconfig-infinality some time ago.
See #43.
However, I did forget to build cairo with the respect fontconfig patch.
That should deploy shortly.
I stopped building
fontconfig-infinalitysome time ago.See #43.
However, I did forget to build
cairowith the respect fontconfig patch. That should deploy shortly.
Just picked it up. Thanks, @achaphiv .
Luckily I still had fontconfig-infinality files on my son's laptop so I simply picked them up and installed on mine.
To your question on U17 related thread: yes, this makes a very visible difference. In particular it changes how things look when one uses small font sizes - letters become wider which makes them much more readable. Also I see that small letters rendered much more consistently.
Don't know how but the i fuckup in Slack got fixed after I used fontconfig-infinality scripts. Somehow rendering in Chromium also seem to change - in particular the small-font-size hack mentioned above got applied onto Facebook page.
So, I personally think that it's very useful.
The fontconfig-infinality deb is listed under packages.
As for packaging config files from: https://github.com/pdeljanov/infinality-remix/tree/master/fontconfig-infinality-remix
I can give it a try, but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.
I will (finally) be using linux again for work, so I might end up fixing it when I get my new laptop.
Staring at terrible font rendering for 8+ hours was one of the reasons why I initially started this ppa, after all.
Not for Focal... ;)
As for packaging config files from: https://github.com/pdeljanov/infinality-remix/tree/master/fontconfig-infinality-remix
I can give it a try, but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.
I will (finally) be using linux again for work, so I might end up fixing it when I get my new laptop.
Staring at terrible font rendering for 8+ hours was one of the reasons why I initially started this ppa, after all.