http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23114
--- Comment #11 from da_fox@mad.scientist.com da_fox@mad.scientist.com 2010-06-29 06:23:23 --- still not fixed in 1.2_rc5
Also, I don't have any Xft settings that I can see, aside from xfce's Xft.xrdb:
dafox@shogoki ~ $ locate -i xft | grep -i "conf|cfg" /home/dafox/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb /usr/share/man/man1/xft-config.1.bz2 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pangoxft.pc /usr/bin/xft-config
.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb seems to only be used by GTK apps. For example when I set antialias to false and hinting to none (using xfce4-appearance-settings, which edits ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb), both firefox (Mozilla app) and gitk (tcl/tk app) still use the global font-config settings. GTK applications (i.e. the rest of the desktop) however do pickup on those Xft settings. Wine however still does whatever it wants to do, ignoring both the font-config settings *and* Xft settings.
If wine does not want to read GTK or Xfce's Xft settings (which I find perfectly reasonable, since it's not a GTK application), it should use the settings specified by font-config (e.g. /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf).