FS#12664 - libwebkit: pango backend is obsolute

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nick Schermer (xerverius) - Sunday, 04 January 2009, 14:14 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 09 January 2009, 20:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The pango backend in webkit is more or less obsolute[1,2] since the freetype backend contains most of the pango code. It also has various rendering problems when it comes to non-latin and downloadable fonts. So i guess it's better to not enable --with-font-backend=pango and stick with freetype.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18546#c14
[2] http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 09 January 2009, 20:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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