Font issues

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Hi

I wish to discuss an issue with font rendering. I don't know if my set up is "wrong" or if this is really the default.

My system is Lubuntu (LXDE+Openbox) 14.04 and all gnustep stuff installed with apt-get.

All non-gnustep apps have beautiful rendered fonts but gnustep apps' fonts are so ugly it's a pain to use them. If this is the default I can't image anyone (new user) wanna stay with the gnustep apps if there are other alternatives.

My assumption is that while non-gnustep apps' fonts are rendered with gtk (cairo+pango) gnustep apps' fonts are rendered using cairo and/or X11.

Since I haven't made any custom settings I assume this is default for anyone installing gnustep on Lubuntu. I played with gnustep preferences and selected other fonts but all look terrible.

1) Is there any quick setting that I overlooked that can fix this?

2) If not, are there any plans or work in progress for a new font backend? Like using Opal (CoreText?) when it is ready or Pango or a totally new graphics backend like Skia that also handles fonts?

Best regards

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Johannes Lundberg

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