Ideally we should rasterize glyphs on the GPU not the CPU. This would have several benefits including speedups, clear-type-ifying, and particularly sub-pixel glyph positioning giving better layout of tiny text. Ideally we could get consistent sub-pixel glyph positions from harfbuzz as/when we move to that for shaping; and get something rather beautiful here.
Has this been implemented in the meantime? (E.g., bug 107090 talks of GPU rendering of text. Although I might be mixing things up.) As for tiny text rendering issues, just for info: another, tangential, improvement is described in the bug 103322, with its other possible manifestations such as bug 88991 and its companions. Bug 71732 comment 14 summarizes the current state after the move to Harfbuzz.
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As Skia with Vulkan will replace OpenGL UI rendering on all platforms, it does not make sense to keep OpenGL UI reports open. Details about Skia: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/success-story/implementing-vulkan-capable-libreoffice-user-interface-using-the-skia-library/
Perhaps no longer OpenGL related, but this remains a valid issue--including via Skia libs.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4) > Perhaps no longer OpenGL related, but this remains a valid issue--including > via Skia libs. I searched through the commit/patch history and it is clear that text rendering directly with Skia was implemented. I asked Tomaž on IRC and he commented: "skia should solve this - IMHO at least this is not something we want to mess with anyway :)" Stuart: what am I missing?
Closing the OpenGL issues for QA housekeeping is fine. But still work to be done here, @Michael?
Well, I guess the skia move is in large part an attempt to use a modern graphics library underneath our code, and leave these decisions to them so we can avoid having to try to boil the ocean =) As such - assuming we can switch to Skia everywhere and deprecated OpenGL, I'd close this WONTFIX I think. I don't see any resource that we could apply here that wouldn't make more sense to do lower in the rendering stack =) If that makes sense ?