Comment 1 for bug 189720

I can confirm it, on Ubuntu 7.10 (I did notice it on 7.04 too).

The actual settings Minefield uses seem rather random, but much more based on fontconfig than on my Gnome settings. For instance, on the fontconfig-config package configuration, if I set the font tuning method to None (which I believe should disable hinting), Minefield seems to start applying aggressive, full hinting to fonts.

Right now I managed to get it somewhere close to my settings (slight hinting, subpixel smoothing), but it doesn't look as good as other apps, and by looking closely I can see it doesn't use as many levels of intermediate colors as it should.

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