Bug 412540

Summary:	PlasmaComponents.TextField uses distance field for text rendering so anti-aliasing can look wrong
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] libplasma	Reporter:	Anthony Vital <anthony.vital>
Component:	components	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.62.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments:	screenshot

Description Anthony Vital 2019-10-02 18:22:22 UTC

As the title says, PlasmaComponents.TextField uses distance field for text rendering instead of native rendering. As a result, not only do fonts not look good, but they completely stick out from the rest of the Plasma desktop. 
It wasn't like that a few months ago, I don't remember exactly when the change was introduced, sorry.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-10-07 00:47:08 UTC

Are you using a fractional scale factor? Can you attach a screenshot?

Comment 2 Anthony Vital 2019-10-07 01:28:48 UTC

Created attachment 123073 [details]
screenshot

Please excuse my quick attempt at showing several textfields in one image. 
You can see the textfields in kickoff, krunner and the clipboard plasmoid using distance field as opposed to the textfields in the system settings or the system monitor.
The scale factor is set to 1 in the system settings.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-10-07 02:09:25 UTC

Thanks, that's very helpful.

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-10-07 08:02:45 UTC

That's done on purpose right now due to issues with password field bullet points rendering and opacity blending issues