Bug 15870 - Fonts are ugly
Summary: Fonts are ugly
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All Linux-GTK
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Silenio Quarti CLA
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Reported: 2002-05-13 12:41 EDT by Boris Shingarov CLA
Modified: 2003-03-05 14:39 EST (History)
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Description Boris Shingarov CLA 2002-05-13 12:41:49 EDT 
User reports fonts look ugly.

Boris' observations:
I prefer using the "monospace" font for text (an artificial alias in gtk2).  
With use_xft=0, all fonts look really ok.  Use_xft=1 gives rough appearance of 
the text, but things like codeassist are really fine.  Will investigate further.
Comment 1 Michael R. Head CLA 2002-05-15 12:50:43 EDT 
Why doesn't the menubar just use the GTK standard font? (monospace is great for
editing buffers, but everything else should use my selected GTK font)

mike
Comment 2 Michael R. Head CLA 2002-05-25 00:53:05 EDT 
Nevermind my previous comment. I had yet to configure my gtk2 fonts. Except for
the (new?) bold-only selection, fonts look great.

mike
Comment 3 Boris Shingarov CLA 2002-05-27 12:55:40 EDT 
The bold-only selection is a known bug and is being worked on.

Still, the AA fonts don't look as they should.  We will get back to this 
problem, but not before 2.0.
Comment 4 Veronika Irvine CLA 2002-09-10 10:32:24 EDT 
Post 2.0. Re-opening bug reports for review.
Comment 5 Steve Northover CLA 2003-03-05 14:39:49 EST 
If fonts are ugly, it's GTK's problem.  Use Eclipse preferences to choose a 
font that looks nice.  If the same font when loaded in another application 
(gedit?) looks good in that application but bad in Eclipse, please reopen this 
PR, describing the particular font and the application where it looks good.  
Thanks.