Comment 12 for bug 189720

I did some investigations, and I found out why the font rendering is different between Minefield and the other GTK/Pango applications. Ubuntu is patching cairo to include support for lcd-filtering while the cairo version used in Minefield is not patched.

Hopefully, the lcd-filtering patch will be integrated upstream in the future (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10301)