Bug 677865 - Menu Fonts Look Poor
Summary: Menu Fonts Look Poor
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 676253
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abattis-cantarell-fonts
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cosimo Cecchi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-16 06:20 UTC by David Le Sage
Modified: 2018-04-11 15:23 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-04-07 13:34:45 UTC
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Font showing monospacing (113.65 KB, image/png)
2011-02-17 04:04 UTC, David Le Sage
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Description David Le Sage 2011-02-16 06:20:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Just a little thing at this early stage but the fonts used by Firefox for the F15 TC2 Alpha look poor.  I am also running Firefox 4 nightly builds on F14 and they do not render poorly on that.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Firefox 4 Beta 11 Pre

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox from the F15/Gnome Shell live CD found here:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Alpha.TC2/Live/

2. Look at Firefox's dropdown menus.

  
Actual results:
Fonts are in a poor quality, mono-spaced font.

Expected results:
Font quality should be similar to that of running Firefox 4 Betas under Fed 14.

Additional info:
I don't know if this is a system issue or if it is simply the case that not all of the requisite fonts are on the live CD due to space issues.  Please reassign if I have filed this against the wrong component.  Thanks.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-02-16 16:36:20 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

a) do you have fully upgraded Rawhide otherwise?
b) could you attach as please screenshot of the Firefox with a menu pulled down,
c) is there anything interesting on stderr of firefox when run from gnome-terminal?
d) please attach also ~/.xsession-errors.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 2 David Le Sage 2011-02-16 21:53:34 UTC
Hello Matej,


No, I didn't upgrade to Rawhide.  I was just running the live CD found here:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Alpha.TC2/Live/

I will look for the other info later.

Comment 3 David Le Sage 2011-02-17 04:04:45 UTC
Created attachment 479261 [details]
Font showing monospacing

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2011-02-21 12:34:38 UTC
OK, I have to admit defeat ... what's wrong with the attached screenshot? Could you provide screenshot of how it should like in your opinion (probably the same menu from F14), please?

Is it just because we have switched to a different basic font? (cantarell http://abattis.org/cantarell/, see also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3)

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 5 David Le Sage 2011-02-22 23:36:46 UTC
Matej, thanks for clarifying. Yes, it would be because of that change of font. It does seem less readable but I guess that is subjective.  If it was the intention to change to this font, then this is not a bug.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-01 12:15:55 UTC
Refiling the bug to the cantarell component. 

Also, try to upgrade to fonts from this scratch build http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2875754 We are trying hard to make fonts better.

Comment 7 markm 2011-03-29 23:58:31 UTC
In my humble opinion fonts are poorly rendered, because by default they are rendered with "medium" or "strong" hinting and without rgba antialiasing.

when I installed Fedora 15 Alpha, the very first thing I did was to look for the way to change font rendering settings. I've managed to do so for applications, though the whole Gnome-shell still ignores them. Also, this Cantarell font isn't great either, "Droid Sans" is much better (my humble opinion though).

Comment 8 markm 2011-03-30 00:02:01 UTC
forgot to add, here is a bug report I've reported upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645433

Comment 9 Jens Petersen 2011-04-07 06:10:01 UTC
I guess this is a duplicate of bug 676253.

Comment 10 David Le Sage 2011-04-07 06:18:32 UTC
Guys, FWIW, the only really negative comments from readers attached to today's Ars Technica article on GNOME 3 relate to the default appearance of the fonts:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-reviews-gnome-30-a-shiny-new-ornament-for-your-linux-lawn.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

Comment 11 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-04-07 13:34:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> I guess this is a duplicate of bug 676253.

I think so, yes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 676253 ***


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