On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 01:23:58PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, February 03, 2018 11:10:06 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
I guess it could be:
- our eyes trained differently
- our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is
corrected by
my glasses so I don't think that is a factor
- different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm
not
sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it different for different apps?
X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm. Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz.
I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I'm interested--I tried ps -Al } grep HarfBuzz (and harfbuzz) on my Debian Wheezy system with kde--no sign of it--does KDE use something else?
KDE uses Qt which uses HarfBuzz. You can see it in the dependencies at
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libqt5gui5
However HarfBuzz is not a separate process but runs as part of the graphical application (it is a library), so you do not see it in ps -Al.