Font rendering in some plugins is broken when the panel is vertical.

[Matt]

There are font rendering issues in *some* plugins when the panel is set vertically.
The black outline for the font is correctly displayed horizontally.
The white core of the font is displayed vertically.
Known faulting plugins : "System Load Monitor" and "CPU Frequency Monitor".
Known working plugin : "Sensor plugin".

Release info :
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xfce4-panel 4.11.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Mar 29 17:09:35 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-09 (48 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140209)
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/Xfce. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Andrzej (ndrwrdck)]

Is it? AFAIR ochosi said this is a theming issue with text shadow of vertical labels. Possible workarounds are:
- not to use themes with shadowed text,
- switch from vertical to deskbar mode in panel preferences (all labels are then laid out horizontally).

The proper solution would be to fix gtk2 theming but that is outside of our control.

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

This is actually a long-standing bug in the murrine engine, where the text-shadow doesn't get rotated along with the label.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.