Comment 11 for bug 189720

I should note I use slight hinting, and I'm having this problem. I also installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a brand new machine last week, and right on the first local system start, before any updates or config changes (other than enabling subpixel anti-aliasing and slight hinting via gnome-appearance-properties) were made, I installed Minefield, and experienced the same results as before.

Also, I can assure I experience it on every font I have tried so far. That includes several free fonts, Microsoft's core fonts, and even Office 2007's ClearType series.

Now for something weird: on my new computer at work (also running Ubuntu 7.10), *all* text rendering looks as bad as Minefield does at home, on every application, since the first day.

To quickly sum it up:
- Old home box: nVidia card, Ubuntu looked nice, Minefield looked horrible;
- New home box: same story;
- Old work box: ATI card, Ubuntu looked nice (in grayscale; its monitor as a CRT one), Minefield seemed perfect
- New work box: ATI card, Ubuntu looks like crap (both on grayscale and on subpixel), Minefield looks the same. At least one of my coworkers is having the same issue with font rendering on the whole system.
All of them use (or used) Ubuntu 7.10 with the distribution's standard proprietary video drivers. All hinting styles seem to be affected.

I can't really make any correlations here, it's almost like it is a random occurrence...