On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:51 +0200, Rudi Chiarito wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:13:08PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Apart from that: does it work or does it break all sorts of things? > > In addition to the Firefox problem already reported, I noticed > differences in font rendering - but then I am one of those whiners that > complain about Arial being a cheap imitation of Helvetica. > > The panel seems to have hinting enabled, even if it's disabled in my > preferences. I use non-standard fonts and they look much better if no > hints are applied. You can see the same with Bitstream Charter (part of > fonts-xorg-base). > > The second curious thing I noticed is that changes in hinting in the > font preferences are not reflected on screen in realtime as they used > to. Actually, #2 might be the explanation for #1: is hinting enabled by > default, if gconfd is not running yet? It could be that the panel gets > started before gconfd and thus gets stuck with whatever are the defaults > for font hinting (the font family is right, though). Yep, this stuff is all known. "Just a matter of a bit of coding" Regards, Owen
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