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> seems like you're bending over backwards to explain that CDE's weaker rendering is a good thing You'd be wrong. What i write isn't about CDE but about antia
by badsectoracula 5y ago
> seems like you're bending over backwards to explain that CDE's weaker rendering is a good thing
You'd be wrong.
What i write isn't about CDE but about antialiased text. As i wrote a few parent posts above i even have antialiased text disabled on Windows 10 via a registry setting and Windows can certainly do antialiased text rendering.
> If CDE could render better but let you opt out that'd be great... but it can't render more accurately in the first place. It's not choosing to be worse.
CDE can do antialiased text rendering, or more precisely Motif can (CDE doesn't render its own fonts) if configured to do so via Xft which uses FreeType for font rasterization - the same library that other toolkits (e.g. Qt) use. So its font rasterization can be as good as other toolkits. You need to do it via X resources and is opt-in instead of opt-out.
And besides i do not even use CDE myself, last time i used it was years ago out of curiosity. Personally on Linux i prefer Window Maker (which can also optionally use Xft for antialiased text rendering).
- chrisseaton 5y ago> So its font rasterization can be as good as other toolkits. Can someone configure CDE to have accurate fonts and icons and 320 DPI if that’s what they prefer? If not why is that not possible?
- badsectoracula 5y agoMy guess is that because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you seem to make the assumption that "antialiased=good looking, non-antialised=bad looking" but in my comments for this entire thread i claim that i prefer non-antialiased text. And i'm going to guess that anyone who would use CDE would also like it to use non-antialiased text. Anyway, here are a couple of screenshots in the CDE wiki that says how to enable it[0]. Unsurprisingly the only comment there is about someone saying that they prefer the non-antialiased version. Apparently there are a issues with the terminal emulator though i guess xterm would be a better choice anyway. https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/ https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/
- chrisseaton 5y agoThe pixels in that screenshot are absolutely enormous. Modern screens have far higher resolutions. If you can’t even see that then I don’t what what else to say.
- badsectoracula 5y agoSorry but what you write make zero sense, the pixel size has nothing to do with screen resolution and the pixel sizes are not even something you can judge from a screenshot. And even ignoring all that, the topic was about text antialiasing, pixel sizes (whatever you may mean with that) and resolutions have absolutely zero to do with it.