Re: [9front] Thoughts on Wayland?

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>]

06.08.2024 18:40:31 hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>:
>> needs to be. Plus, AA really benefits everyone, and
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Rendering_Extension is only for fonts, not
>> for arbitrary graphics. (Same problem as on Plan 9. Should we blame Keith
>> Packard for not going further than just font rendering?) There's no way to
>> have AA in arbitrary 2D graphics rendered on the X server, AFAIK.
>
> What do you need AA for at all? It just makes everything look blurry
> to me, and even for fonts I often disable this behavior (Though at my
> low resolution that works only for high quality fonts that have good
> hinting parameters embedded).
> A lot of software depends on hand-crafted pixel art in their icons, I
> see only downsides, let's avoid resampling and AA completely unless we
> render our own oversampled images from something of much higher or
> infinite (vector) resolution (for example like with fonts).

As for fonts, you are right. But for line rendering and graphics, AA has some benefits in many cases.

Take a line that's thinner than a pixel. Can you see it without any subpixel calculation? When they're diagonally you often see just a few portions of that line.

Or a grid, textures in the distance. Moire patterns?

sirjofri