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Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filter
From: |
Markus Trippelsdorf |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox |
Date: |
Tue, 30 May 2017 09:03:43 +0200 |
On 2017.05.30 at 08:48 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> >> Distributions regularly apply patches to packages to suit their own
> >> needs. I don't see any problem here. Honestly, I think that the
> >> number of single users who compile Firefox or Chrome from scratch
> >> is quite limited, thus the impact of this change is rather low –
> >> it's not released yet! Additionally, new releases of Firefox or
> >> Chrome are *much* more frequent than FreeType releases.
> >
> > No, it will impact all Chrome/Chromium/Firefox users once distros
> > update to the next freetype version.
>
> You think that distributions will do an update to FreeType 2.8.1 (to
> be released in a few months, I guesstimate) *before* they do an update
> to Chrome or FreeType? I consider this very unlikely.
Then what about all these electron apps like vscode? They use an old
Chromium version internally and update it only very rarely:
https://ibb.co/miFg3F
So all I'm saying is that this patch will cause many problems and I
don't think the gains are worth the pains.
--
Markus
- [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/29
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/29
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/29
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Markus Trippelsdorf, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Markus Trippelsdorf, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox,
Markus Trippelsdorf <=
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Werner LEMBERG, 2017/05/30
- Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox, Markus Trippelsdorf, 2017/05/30