[Bug 494092] New: Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render with antialiasing

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Summary: Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render with antialiasing

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494092

Summary: Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render
                    with antialiasing
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: liberation-fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora

Description of problem:
I am using KDE. I can use liberation fonts just fine for KDE applications.
However for GTK applications fonts cannot render as antialiased.

Here's a matrix of what combination works and what not:
GNOME + Liberation NO
KDE + Liberation OK
Under KDE GTK Apps + Liberation NO
Under KDE GTK Apps + Sans Serif / Monospace YES

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rawhide + F10

How reproducible:
Everytime

I really would like to use Liberation fonts as I favour them on any other ones.

Regards,
Hasan Ceylan

[Bug 494092] Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render with antialiasing

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--- Comment #1 from Hasan Ceylan   2009-04-05 05:00:10 EDT ---
I do not know what's going on under the hood but here's what works for me.

Credit goes to
http://gordonazmo.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/a-simple-tweak-to-make-your-gtk-f...

I already had gtk-qt-engine-1.1-5.fc11.i586.

I cannot test GNOME right now but at least for GTK apps under KDE that solution
works for me.

So a missing link is resotered by
#ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

I do not know which rpm should be responsible for providing this symbolic link
therefore I will leave the subject and category as it is although my initial
guess is totally wrong.

Hasan

[Bug 494092] Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render with antialiasing

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Caius "kaio" Chance  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Caius "kaio" Chance   2009-04-05 19:52:19 EDT ---
Thanks, Hasan.

FYI, 10-autohint.conf was not symlinked to conf.d/ has many reasons. '10' is
very high priority which overrides most of other specification in other .conf
files.

Ones might prefer Auto Hint for everything, but there are other ones who don't.
There are some users who are in locales that auto hinting blur their default
fonts due to glyph complexity. This simply affect their usage.

We could work out a more appropriate solutions to suit both cases.

[Bug 494092] Liberation fonts under GTK applications cannot render with antialiasing

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Caius 'kaio' Chance  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Caius 'kaio' Chance   2009-06-30 22:59:50 EDT ---
Zap this bug. Please reopen if bug persists after testing on latest version.