On 6/23/05, Rudi Chiarito <nutello(a)sweetness.com> wrote:
The panel seems to have hinting enabled, even if it's disabled in
my
preferences. I use non-standard fonts and they look much better if no
hints are applied. You can see the same with Bitstream Charter (part of
fonts-xorg-base).
The second curious thing I noticed is that changes in hinting in the
font preferences are not reflected on screen in realtime as they used
to. Actually, #2 might be the explanation for #1: is hinting enabled by
default, if gconfd is not running yet? It could be that the panel gets
started before gconfd and thus gets stuck with whatever are the defaults
for font hinting (the font family is right, though).
I'd love to see a screenshot.. preferable marked up.. showing the
pamel problem as compared to the application font hinting.
-jef