122131 - gtk2 needs AA fonts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Maybe using pango, maybe using Xft, I'm not sure yet.

Comment 1

[Brian Yuan]

Not sure what's the problem here, but just FYI, the current Pango only provides
very limited CJK support, a lot of Asian charsets are not supported there:
JIS0213, GB18030, HKSCS, CNS11643, etc.

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yeah, the current Xft work that is in process will work with gtk2 as well.  So
we just need to figure out how to integrate it.

Comment 3

[Jessie Li]

The font using gtk2 is smaller than that using gtk1.2, is it the same problem
with this bug? Otherwise I will file another bug.
Thanks

Comment 4

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Leave it open.  Although once support is ready for one, it will be ready for the
other there might still be some lingering issues.

Comment 5

[Victor Hernandez Maksimenko]

Attachment: patch that enables xft on mozilla gtk2

This patch enables aa fonts with xft on mozilla gtk2.

Comment 6

[Victor Hernandez Maksimenko]

forgot to say that the patch needs blizzards xft patch applied before

Comment 7

[Andrea Rossato]

i tried appling the patch together with Blizzard's (bug 126919) to moz. 1.0, but
there was no way to compile: it complained in compiling nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp
In moz. 1.1a the patch could not be applied.

is it blizzard patch outdated?

Comment 8

[Louie Zhao]

I have a question about this bug. During my testing, I found the AA feature can
be enabled on mozilla-gtk2 as well as on mozilla-gtk, and the result is just the
same. After I investigated the source code of AA font (not much), I found
nothing to be related specially to gtk or gtk2. That is to say, AA feature in
mozilla has no realtion to special toolkit. If so, maybe the name of this bug
should be "gtk2 needs AA fonts based on Xft". I want to know whether my
understanding is right.

Comment 9

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yes, you are correct.  This is just to remind me that the feature needs to be
done. :)

Comment 10

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

This is fixed now that xft has landed.  Please see the xft tracking bug (bug
#172768) for bugs in that code.