Re: [Security-Discuss] recent security updates for 10.2 broke kde?

* Simon Oosthoek <[email protected]> [2006-06-16 00:30:45 +0200]:

> >>As for the libfreetype6 update, the update from today fixed the acute 
> >>problem of kdm and kde not running. Some users did complain about the 
> >>resulting bigger fatter font rendering. Oh well, can't please everyone I 
> >>suppose ;-)
> >
> >Huh?  Fatter font rendering?
> >
> 
> I didn't see anything peculiar, but especially thunderbird seems to have 
> a fatter font for mailboxes with new mail in it. Also the Taskbar of KDE 
> has a more pronounced font for some (active?) applications. More people 
> noticed a change, only one was really annoyed ;-)
> 
> Another found the rendering of fonts for the menus was much better now 
> (more consistent) and another noticed the scrolling bug in firefox was 
> still present (I seem to remember seeing a bugreport about that ages ago 
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14554)
> 
> I'd say, on average, it's an improvement if it fixed a security problem.

Well, I can't say I noticed anything different, and I don't think the
changes were sufficient to affect any font rendering, but I could be
wrong.  A scrolling bug in firefox would have absolutely nothing to do
with freetype, however.

Regardless, it fixes the security hole and if only a few people are
noticing some slight differences in font rendering, I'm not concerned
enough to try to figure out where that's coming from.

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