Unity-2D panel font artefacts

[Tuomo Sipola]

Opening a new bug as instructed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1005211/comments/2

I updated from Oneiric to Precise.

What I expected: The top panel fonts would be rendered nicely as they were before the update.

What happened instead: Now the top panel fonts are rendered in a fuzzy way. The name of the window, weather applet text, time applet text and user name are rendered fuzzily. All the other fonts are OK, e.g. Firefox tabs, gedit input and gnome-terminal text.

unity 5.12-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,move,place,mousepoll,session,wall,regex,gnomecompat,snap,grid,vpswitch,imgpng,resize,animation,workarounds,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 40.344817] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
 [ 40.345066] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
 [ 60.272030] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Tue May 29 18:17:02 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-05-27 18:02:28,211 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a12] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30d8]
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30d8]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6720s
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=UUID=f031418a-4c71-4280-8cc0-41a76eec600c ro quiet splash i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-27 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68MDU Ver. F.08
dmi.board.name: 30D8
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 83.0E
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU8023T74
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
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dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6720s
dmi.product.version: F.08
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Is that the same in a guest session as well? please make sure to run 'unity --reset' in a terminal. I believe it could have something to do with a little change in the opacity value of the launcher.

[Tuomo Sipola (tuomosipola)]

Additional info:

This problem seems to be way more prominent in Unity-2d than in Unity. In standard Unity I can notice that the rendering is a bit different but not in a too distracting way. In Unity-2d it is ugly as in the example png above.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Can you please attach a unity2d VS Unity comparision of the problem?

[Tuomo Sipola (tuomosipola)]

In unity-2d the font is more fuzzy. In standard unity the font is a bit off, it looks unfocused.

[Taras Halturin (halturin)]

look at my screenshot. the font rendering of the top panel is not the same as bookmark panel of the chrome browser.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Tuomo - Thanks that confirms a bug in the Unity 2D panel font rendering. It's meant to look embossed as it does in Unity (3D).

Taras - That is not a bug in your screenshot. I believe the font in the Unity panel is meant to be embossed and so will look different to how it does in applications.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

duplicate bug 977080