Re: gnustep-back font display broken on cairo

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 04.08.2019 um 23:48 schrieb Riccardo Mottola via Gnustep-dev 
> <address@hidden>:
> 
> On 8/2/19 6:06 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> I would not like to revert this change even though I agree with you that 
>> pull requests this big are bad. The overall changes here are good and in 
>> most cases we see no issues with them. As for your specific setting, did you 
>> try to run with the property "GSFontHinting" set to the value 17? This 
>> should switch back to the old behaviour for font hinting. If this does not 
>> help you should try to revert part of the changes. This is easier as it 
>> seems. Most of the changes in this pull request deal with font names and 
>> weights. That is irrelevant for the font displaying and you may just ignore 
>> those changes. Which leaves you with less than a handful of interesting 
>> changes to look into.
>> 
>> That is currently all I can say as I am away from my computer.
> 
> 
> if I set the value to 17, Ink will hang when I open the "test" file I 
> prepared (but not other files).
> 
> Of course, not only Ink, other applications will hang... e.g. GNUMail when 
> displaying a Mail.

Sorry fr taking so long to reply. I tried with the test file you send me 
privately some time ago and when setting the value 17, it still works fine for 
me. Could you please provide me with a stack trace of the hanging process? As 
this isn’t happening for me, nor to anybody else on the mailing list. I would 
expect that it is something on your computers. maybe a corrupt font?

Did you try to strip down more of the merged pull request to see which part is 
causing this issue?