[Bug 379761] Re: MASTER - FF 3.5 font hinting does not honour gnome-settings

[mbana]

ditto.

—Mohamed


On 26 March 2010 22:48, Guiodic (Guido Iodice) <guido.iodice at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is a long time bug, but it is still unsolved.
>
> New Ubuntu look, themes and whatever are important stuff but a decent
> font hinting in the most impostant application in more urgent, I think.
>
> This is "desktop experience" too.
>
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> MASTER - FF 3.5 font hinting does not honour gnome-settings
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379761
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> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
> Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
>
> asac, ask that I create a new account and observe if the FF 3.5 uses the
> gnome appearance settings, it seems that it doesn't.
>
> I set my gnome settings to *hint full*.
> http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9426/74100265.png, FF 3.1 (on the
> right) is hinting correctly.  F 3.5 isn't, it seems to be using *hint
> slight*.  Have a look at the gnome taskbar and the FF 3.5 menu bar the
> renderings clearly aren't the same.
>
> Is the hinting hardcoded somewhere?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.5 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
>
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