2009/3/15 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k(a)gmx.net>:
What is so special about Wine why anti-aliasing isn't working for most users? (it could be a regression) In Stefan his case it started working after installing a Windows tahoma.ttf. What is so special about this font? A modern Linux system has dozens or hundreds of fonts installed and both GNOME/KDE can use each font AA'ed without issues.
I recently reinstalled this system with Ubuntu 8.10 and its inbuilt Wine 1.0.1. I then added the budgededicated.com repo to get the fortnightly snapshots. A string of registry changes enabled smoothed fonts for me: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=20061&sid=6fbbcf362e44a66b310ef88f63... However, it's deeply problematic that I had to do this at all instead of it Just Working when Wine was updated. This is just broken. - d.