| Summary: | Fonts look fuzzy in Kick Off | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | PJSingh5000 |
| Component: | widget-kickoff | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 4.10.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | Kick Off Launcher Plasma Widget showing poorly rendered fonts alongside same text typed and copied from Kate, with nicer font rendering. | ||
Hello! This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham |
Created attachment 81067 [details] Kick Off Launcher Plasma Widget showing poorly rendered fonts alongside same text typed and copied from Kate, with nicer font rendering. Kick Off uses grayscale sub-pxel font rendering, even though Use Sub-pixel rendering | RGB is selected in System Settings. Please see the attached image, which shoes actual fonts rendered in in Kick Off. The image also shows the same text typed and copied from Kate. Subjectively, on my LCD (and to my eyes) the Kick Off fonts look fuzzy, while the Kate fonts look sharp. Objectively, zoom into the image, and notice that the Kick Off fonts have gray fringes, indicating that Grayscale Sub-Pixel rendering has been applied. Scroll to the right, while zoomed in, and notice that the Kate fonts have colored fringes, indicating that RGB Sub-Pixel rendering has been applied. To Reproduce... Make sure ~/.fonts.conf does not exist. Launch System Settings Select Application Appearance Select Fonts Select Use anti-aliasing Select Enabled Click Configure Uncheck Exclude range Check Use sub-pixel rendering Select RGB from dropdown Select Hint style Full from dropdown Click OK Click Apply Restart machine (just to make sure settings are applied) Verify... Take a screen shot of Kick Off. Zoom into the image, and verify that the Kick Off fonts have gray fringes, indicating that Grayscale Sub-Pixel rendering has been applied, even though you selected Use sub-pixel rendering | RGB in System Settings.