Re: Antialias (objects in X) enabled by default?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 00:59, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, DANIELLLANO wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:05 GMT
> > From: DANIELLLANO <DANIELLLANO terra es>
> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> >     <dia-list gnome org>
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Antialias (objects in X) enabled by default?
> >
> > larsrc raeder dk wrote:
> > > DANIELLLANO sagde:
> > > > Is there any Roadmap for having antialias of objects in X?
> > > > (This is very low priority for me, I prefer good output and lack of
> > > > bugs but it would be nice to know if anybody has any thoughts or is
> > > > already working on that)
> > >
> > > In X in general, I don't know, but Dia can do antialiased diagrams, just
> > > check the menu point View->Antialiased.
> >
> > That's what I was looking for.
> > Now I see it's implemented :-)
> >
> > Shouldn't it be enabled by default?
> 
> If you can no longer find any bugs in it maybe,
> but it has been unstable in the past.

It has been a version or two since it was unstable.  Real problem is
that it's significantly slower, and that it requires libart which is not
installed everywhere.

> I actually kind of like the sharper edges of non-anti-aliased drawings
> (makes for better PNG files) and I'm not sure it makes much differnce on
> an LCD screen anyway.

I frequently turn it on on LCD screens.  In particular, it makes
arrowheads much nicer.

-Lars