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gnome-font-viewer package

gnome-font-viewer: broken subpixel rendering

Bug #216875 reported by Tobias Wolf
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gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

It seems gnome-font-viewer uses an antialising method that is independent from the global settings. Especially the subpixel rendering looks very bad.

I have my global settings set to subpixel+slight hinting.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :
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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

This is how it would look with the global Gnome settings

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, gnome-font-viewer has been deprecated in GNOME 2.23 so closing this bug

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

Excuse the follow-up, Sebastien, but what is now used for viewing fonts? I’ve looked around (Recommends, Suggests, etc) but there is now nothing on my system that wants to open a font file when I double click it.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no font viewer application installed by default in intrepid

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Durand D'souza (durand1) wrote :

Are there any plans to replace it? I kinda miss it...and having to use fontmatrix just to preview a font is silly.

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helmuthdu (helmuthdu) wrote :

Try fonty python!

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

Guess who’s back?

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Back in what? could you describe the current situation and not open bugs with that kind of comments? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

Oh scusami. Thought it was obvious from the context that gnome-font-viewer is back in gnome-control-center and the original bug is still/again present. (cf Comment #3 )

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

Should be visible with all fonts, but it works best with thin/light fonts.

Examples:

$ gnome-font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf
$ gnome-font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf

Look for the intense color fringing.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how is that a gnome-control-center bug? it seems rather a bug in the font rendering (ie fontconfig) or a configuration unadapted to your screen

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

No, it’s in the binary gnome-font-viewer. Can you reproduce it?

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Xhacker Liu (xhacker) wrote :

This bug affects me too. Any progress?

It really annoy me!

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Burt P. (pburt0) wrote :

July 2010, bug still exists in Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome 2.30.2.

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Burt P. (pburt0) wrote :

July 2010, bug still exists in Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome 2.30.2.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Xhacker Liu (xhacker) wrote :

I'm using maverick beta, the bug still here.

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Xhacker Liu (xhacker) wrote :

Why this bug is still not fixed? It makes the viewer nearly not usable!

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

Here’s another screenshot. Note, that Chromi in the background uses my preferred settings, i.e., the defaults.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Can someone test if this problem still happens with gnome-font-viewer 3.6?

affects: gnome-utils (Ubuntu) → gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

I don't see any problem with DejaVu ExtraLight using 3.6. But then I didn't see this bug first-hand. Ideally someone who definitely had the bug before will confirm that it's gone now.

If it's still present, please file upstream.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote :

This bug was fixed somehow in the course of the GTK 3 migration.

Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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