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

[Gregory Casamento]

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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