On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 00:00 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:

Hi,

Could anyone with graphic design experience offer more details on this bug? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523487

Google confirms it's not just my impression.

Well, the only important difference there is that the font used by linux version is bigger and uses just grey scale antialiasing as opposed to the hinted subpixel antialiasing used by windows (not perfect either) -- you are comparing apples with oranges.

It seems that gecko respects system wide settings (sans size; come to think of it, why is the font size in firefox apparently measured in pixels instead of the usual typographic units [pt]?) as I have nice fonts in (almost) default rawhide installation with subpixel hinting turned on (and size toned down a bit) and it looks in firefox just the same as in the rest of the desktop (and to say, much better than the screenshots from both windows and fedora you provided, at least on my laptop).

Martin

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Martin Sourada martin.sourada@gmail.com wrote:

It seems that gecko respects system wide settings (sans size; come to think of it, why is the font size in firefox apparently measured in pixels instead of the usual typographic units [pt]?) as I have nice fonts in (almost) default rawhide installation with subpixel hinting turned on (and size toned down a bit) and it looks in firefox just the same as in the rest of the desktop (and to say, much better than the screenshots from both windows and fedora you provided, at least on my laptop).

What could be done so it works this way out of the box, rather than having users change various settings to make them look better?