Re: Text Antialising bug [Re: GNOME Theme Improvements....]

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 28.12.2010 21:10, schrieb David Chisnall:
>> More GNOME theme improvements...
>>
>> http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/12/bean-running-with-gnome-native-theme-as.html
> 
> 
> This screenshot shows a bug with the text rendering in GNUstep.  I'm not sure 
> exactly what is causing it - it could be in the text rendering code in -gui, 
> in -back, or in the view that draws the text...
> 
> If you zoom in on any of the text on a grey background, you can see that it 
> has a white halo.  It looks as if the text is being rendered as 
> black-on-white and then composited on top of the grey background.  Is the 
> background colour for rendering text being incorrectly set as white when 
> drawing into a transparent view? Or is this more subtle?

That's an interesting observation.

Greg, which backend did you use to create the screen shot and if this
was cairo, which version of cairo are you using?
I am still not able to use cairo with my OpenSuse 11.3 and the ATI
graphics driver. Otherwise I could test this myself, sorry.

Fred