Ayatana Design

  1. Bug #723167
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 723167

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Roman Yepishev (rye) wrote : Re: Panel does not use standard GTK/Pango font rendering/antialiasing, causing fuzzy fonts

Based on my tests:
1. The settings from gtk_settings_get_default() are being read and used (set in FontSettings.cpp). Forcing RGB mode in the code does not change anything.

2. Removing text-shadow makes text look slightly better but still with visible colorization/blurriness.

3. Rebuilding unity with cairo_font_options_set_antialias(font_options, CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_GRAY) makes it a bit better.

4. Setting "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings rgba-order bgr" makes panel fonts look the right way but all other applications start rendering fonts in a blurred way. Rebuilding unity with forced BGR mode makes panel font look the right way but the menu entry selected will be reversed (see attached image).

So it looks like the text is rendered in a wrong way in the panel but it is actually using the proper settings.