Re: [Nautilus-list] Xft Anti-aliasing, Libart antialiasing?

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Moses Lei wrote:

> I originally posted this on Gnotices, but no one seems to care what's
> posted there (I don't blame them...)
> 
> Is it just me, or is the anti-aliasing from Nautilus/libart more readable
> and less blurry than Xft/render's? I've refrained from using Xft for
> normal-sized fonts on my machine because it strains my eyes, but the
> anti-aliasing on the Nautilus icons doesn't seem to cause as much of a
> strain. Is there some cause for this? (Is it just me? Hopefully I'm not
> crazy...)

What do you mean libart? Both Xft and Nautilus uses freetype to rasterize 
the font glyphs. Given the same fonts the output should be identical.

/ Alex