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#5396: subpixel smoothing by default unless a CRT monitor is suspected
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Written by ubuntu_demon the 22 Mar 08 at 11:58.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
subpixel smoothing by default unless a CRT monitor is suspected
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Eldmannen wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 15:31
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Antialiasing is great.
But subpixel looks strange, it looks colored...
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alberge204 wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 19:47
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Personally, I can't stand subpixel smoothing, but if most people do prefer it then it seems a sensible default. On the other hand, people who don't know what it is may just think fonts look strangely colored on Linux -- not so good. I think the IE7 installation does a good job of asking the user for this.
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johno wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 22:33
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I've never seen a monitor where sub-pixel smoothing actually looks better. It always suffers from colour fringing. That fringing can be minimised via heavy hinting, but that's only because there's less smoothing to be done in that case.
In the sub-pixel theory, monitors are just uniform RGB stripes - but that's not the case in practice - the panel designers go to trouble to make them appear collected. The result is that sub-pixel rendering has little effect on smoothness, and adds all sorts of cyan and magenta fringing.
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topias.virta wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 11:02
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No thanks! I have LCD-monitor and with subpixelsmoothing text seems unclear - same problem when using CTR-monitor.
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angrykeyboarder wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 13:08
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A lot of people with LCD monitors can't stand subpixel hinting.
I'm not sure that's a good idea.
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notyetroot wrote on the 15 Aug 08 at 18:42
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It looks better to me, but like anything, allow disabling it.
+1
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