| Summary: | subpixel rendering not working in RHEL 7 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Joe Wright <jwright> |
| Component: | freetype | Assignee: | Marek Kašík <mkasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | mkasik, ngalvin |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-01-29 11:10:45 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
The patents on subpixel rendering owned by Microsoft are still valid and should expire in 2019-10-07 (according to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering): http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6219025 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6239783 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6307566 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6225973 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6243070 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6393145 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6421054 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6282327 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6624828 Looking at the individual patents you can see that Microsoft still pays maintenance fees. I'm closing this with resolution cantfix. Regards |
Description of problem: Customer would like for us to to enable subpixel rendering by default. It looks like the changelog for freetype indicates that this SHOULD be happening. ~~~ * Tue Jul 31 2007 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo> 2.3.5-2 - Change spec file to permit enabling bytecode-interpreter and subpixel-rendering without editing spec file. - Resolves: 249986 ~~~ But their users claim that we're not enabling by default when we build it. --with subpixel rendering is not being set. But, maybe the flag is being passed but the spec file isn't reflecting it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. none 2. 3. Actual results: subpixel rendering inactive Expected results: Additional info: