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

[Eric Wasylishen]

Text with GS + cairo looks fine to me - is this not just an artifact from the 
screenshot Gregory posted having been downscaled?

On 2011-01-01, at 8:52 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> It is cairo, here's the version...
> 
> ii  libcairo2                            1.6.4-7
> The Cairo 2D vector graphics library
> ii  libcairo2-dev                        1.6.4-7
> Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
> 
> 
>> 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
>> 
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> 
> Later, GC
> 
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