[Bug 1722508] Re: Font hinting appears broken on 17.10 beta

[Jeremy Bicha]

> Its not so much that the font rendering is better or worse but that it
is different than before

Gordon, thanks for your reply.

I think your issue is different than the Qt issue mentioned by many of
the commenters here.

I help maintain Ubuntu's font packages, but I just started with that and
I wasn't involved in the freetype 2.7/2.8 upgrade nor am I familiar with
how Ubuntu's font rendering used to work. I encourage you to start a
Desktop topic at https://community.ubuntu.com/ for your suggestion. If
you could provide before and after screenshots, that would be helpful.

We might want to keep a more upstream default font rendering. I don't
know, but I am hopeful that your post will help us figure out what to
do.

By the way, I expect we'll be upgrading to freetype 2.8.1 for Ubuntu
18.04 LTS, but I am waiting for the next Electron release first. See LP:
#1728329

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