http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3686
Summary: Display fonts according to fonts.conf Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: wine-gui AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: willie@froq.net
Why doesn't Wine simply try to follow ~/fonts.conf for hinting/ antialiasing/ sub-pixel hinting/ substitutes/ excluded range if it exists? I know that Wine tries to be smart, guessing what settings would be best, but that's usually neither needed nor wanted. That's why there is a config file for stuff like that.
Wine simply stands out, because it renders fonts in a completely different fashion compared to all native apps (eg, I use medium hinting, no sub-pixel hinting and anti-aliasing for native apps, but Wine only uses hinting). Even if it would respect those setting, Wine would still look odd, because the font size doesn't match at all, but I think that's a different bug/ issue (for Qt/ KDE, GTK2, Fox, Java, Enlightenment and Wx, font size 9 is the same - for Wine, it's much smaller, about 30% I'd say).
AFAIR, Wine has a XML implementation, couldn't that be used to parse fonts.conf?