http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325
--- Comment #151 from Qian Hong fracting@gmail.com 2012-02-08 15:21:55 CST --- Hello Aric,
Sorry for my delay, I'm travelling these days. Thanks for all your great effects.
(In reply to comment #141)
Qian Hong, I am discussing with Alexandre how to better handle and generate the SystemLink setting for Wine to handle new font installs.
Right now WINE dynamically generates that fallback intelligently and with quite a bit of neat flexibility. I was advocating to remove the registry setting all together and regenerate the fallbacks every time, that would make it pick up new fonts that are installed as well as changes to font replacements quite easily.
However the question is if Chinese users are going to try to set that registry setting themselves and have it have effect?
- Chinese users used to set that registry setting, that's because of the historical reason of this font link issue. - However, most Chinese Ubuntu users doesn't modified the font link registry manually, since there was a patched version of Wine in the wine-cn ppa repository, which already worked out of box. - For other distributions, I'm not very sure, please let me know if you need any further information and I'll collect them for you.
If users are going to try to set that up then we may have a problem because we will be unable to know if the setting was setup by the user or a stale dynamically generated setting from a previous run.
Sorry again for my late reply, I've seen new patch committed these days, so is this still and issue in the latest wine? I'm not sure If I understand you very well, I'd like to let you know, if you are worrying about bug reports, then may be I can help. In other words, if Chinese wine users modify the font link registry manually but file a bug report without mentioning what she/he did with registry, then it may became a annoying problem for debugging wine, but, in this case, I'll take care on the bugzilla and retest those font rendering related issues by myself, hopes that help :)
If you feel that most Chinese users will not be setting that registry key then i am going to take steps to remove it all together and have it be something handled internally.
Will that work?
Personally I like the way applied in the latest wine, if you need further information I can ask on some Chinese Linux User Groups since I can't announce on behavior of others rather then myself :) No matter what way wine will select, I'll keep participating test and report back.
However, I wonder will auto generated font link always work out of box? It seems there is one anti-aliasing issue in the latest wine, will report as separate bug.
Thanks and regards!