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We spend most of our computer time reading and writing text. Studies show that even the smallest improvement in fonts or font rendering produces huge benefits. The competition has realised it a long time ago.
Possible areas for improvement in font handling:
- Modernize/complete the font selection/preview dialog. See:
- Nicolas Spalinger's call
- another gtk-devel thread
- Support user control or OpenType features gnome545510, gnome547472
- Fix it in OOo too: ooo79878
- Modernize the font tab in the appearance capplet
- Font installation:
- Make font installation easy. Packages may not be the best approach to fonts (packaging means minimal legal audit of the font, addition of human-friendly description and necessary fontconfig rules, bundling of license text, fc-cache automation, etc Doing it all elsewhere means creating another font-specific packaging format.)
- If packages are the answer for now, at least make font installation automatic, see Features/AutomaticFontInstallation,
- Font preview:
- write a font preview generator
- use it to add a preview of font packages to the PK GUI frontends fdo18928
- Fix OOo:
- Fix Firefox:
- Add baseline table support to pango (align scripts in a line of text) for non-latin scripts gnome346419
- Implement side bearing deltas in cairo and pango (see http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.freetype.user/2007-03/msg00057.html)
- Improve freetype rasterization link1, link2?
- Fix the following problems:
Issue tracker | Description | Issues | Tagging method and other comments |
---|---|---|---|
bugzilla.redhat.com | Fedora package grouping (comps), specific Fedora code changes | Problem list | CC the bugs list |
bugzilla.freedesktop.org | Fontconfig, HarfBuzz, DejaVu, Freetype… | Problem list | |
bugzilla.gnome.org | Pango | Problem list | |
bugs.kde.org | KDE (Konqueror…) | Problem list | |
bugzilla.mozilla.org | Firefox, Thunderbird… | Problem list | |
bugs.webkit.org | Webkit | Problem list |