IcedTea updated to b17

Francis Kung fkung at redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 14:19:51 PDT 2007


> IcedTea mercurial tip has now been updated to the OpenJDK b17 release.

To follow up a bit, there are some font rendering artifacts after this 
push.  I've discarded the font work that Kyle and myself did and 
switched to the Sun freetype fonts in b17 (the native implementations 
are very similar).

I suspect the artifacts are caused by the icedtea-antialias patch 
(specifically, the modifications to FontStrikeDesc.java).  The intent 
was to change the text-antialias default to "on", as that looks much 
better with Freetype, but it seems to be causing problems with the new 
font stuff.  Removing that part of the patch and rebuilding may fix the 
rendering problems, but I won't have a chance to test it until next week.

Cheers,
Francis



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