http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10342
--- Comment #10 from Erik Johnson junk1112@new.rr.com 2008-07-20 09:41:08 --- (In reply to comment #8)
Freetype does not support ClearType, you may want to redirect your request to FT developers.
I believe that the subpixel rendering is actually enabled in the rasterization step, in libXft or in cairo. Subpixel rendering *is* a defacto setting on most major distros, wherever it is enabled (freetype, xft, whatever... not totally sure). Gnome and KDE's font configuration areas each have options for subpixel rendering.
But redirecting my request to any of those (freetype, xft, cairo) developers will not solve the issue with Wine, because Wine does not respect your system's font settings, whatever they may be. I can tell you that right now on my system, I have freetype, xft, and cairo all using subpixel rendering, and Wine refuses to display the fonts with subpixel rendering. Ths issue *is* with Wine, not with anything else. I've looked at the Wine code that handles font rendering, and can verify that.