On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:00 +0100, Michael <micuin...@gmx.de> wrote: > If I disable subpixel hinting in the KDE menu (or manually in > .fonts.conf, this has the same effect), gtk / gnome apps and kde / qt > apps show the same font rendering. If I enable subpixel hinting, the > qt / kde apps respond to it and look much more beautiful, but the gtk > / gnome apps look still the same as without it and seem to completly > ignore this setting. I will attach some example pics to show this.
Hi Michael, Thanks for the bug report. Hopefully we'll be able to make some progress toward figuring out what the problem is. What do you get if you change the option for subpixel hinting in the GNOME settings? (Run gnome-appearance-properties and select the "Fonts" tab.) Is that any different? Meanwhile, I'm having trouble parsing your description of the bug above. Your message says that gtk/gnome applications render the "same" whether you disable subpixel hinting or enable subpixel hinting. Which option are you trying to do to make an effect? Disabling or enabling? Meanwhile, "beautiful" and "perfect" are not helpful descriptions of behavior. Different people have different ideas about what kinds of hinting or sub-pixel rendering look best. That's why we have options. It's definitely legitimate if advertised settings aren't taking effect, but you'll need to describe those in terms of the actual settings. For example, "I enable RGB sub-pixel rendering for glyphs but the glyphs are still being rendered in grayscale rather than in different colors" would be a legitimate report. But even then, we'd like to see more details. So, if you could describe exactly what behavior you're getting, exactly what change you're making, (for example, what change did you make to fonts.conf?), exactly what behavior you expect from that change, and exactly what behavior you're getting instead, then that would be very helpful. And for descriptions of font-rendering behavior you may find it useful to describe those with actual images. Finally, its not obvious to me that whatever buggy behavior is present here is in the cairo library. But I don't actually understand what bug is being described yet, so I'm not sure of that. :-) Thanks again, -Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
