Re: Antialias (objects in X) enabled by default?

[DANIELLLANO <DANIELLLANO terra es>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 00:59, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, DANIELLLANO wrote:
> > > Shouldn't it be enabled by default?
> > 
> > If you can no longer find any bugs in it maybe,
> > but it has been unstable in the past.
> 
> It has been a version or two since it was unstable.

Are the bugs reported?
Are them fixed?
Do you know how to reproduce them?

> Real problem is that it's significantly slower,

It's a default. People would still be able to chose non antialiased
renderer.

> and that it requires libart which is not
> installed everywhere.

Almost all current Linux distributions provide it.
I was just suggesting on having it enabled by default, if there's no
libart just fall back to the non antialiased renderer.

> > I actually kind of like the sharper edges of non-anti-aliased drawings
> > (makes for better PNG files) and I'm not sure it makes much difference on
> > an LCD screen anyway.
> 
> I frequently turn it on on LCD screens.  In particular, it makes
> arrowheads much nicer.

I try to have everything antialiased.