[Bug 512615] Re: fonts are incorrectly rendered due to not using system cairo

[Jud Craft]

One possible user workaround is to just use grayscale smoothing, since
this avoids the conundrum of cairo library LCD filter conflicts.

On a cross-distro note, Fedora ships with grayscale enabled by default,
hence this flaw in a Fedora system would not be immediately apparent.
In addition, they also disable LCD filtering [for other reasons], so
their subpixel smoothing actually always looks this bad.


Another question might be, not why does Firefox ship its own cairo, but why do they use the worst filtering by default?  If they enabled default filtering this bug might never have been noticed, as even experienced Ubuntu users only have seldom reasons to change their LCD filtering type.

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fonts are incorrectly rendered due to not using system cairo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512615
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