Channel names antialiased but programme titles not

[James Heather]

See attachment. The channel names on the left-hand side are displayed in a nicely antialiased font, respecting my system settings. The programme names, however, aren't.

Both channel names and programme names change if I change the font in 'Options'/'Horizontal viewer'. But regardless of what font I choose, channel names are antialiased and programme names aren't.

This is a little odd, and rather hard on the eye. It must be a one-line fix, presumably, if the support is already there in the channel name display?

I am running the Freeguide 0.10.10 RPM, on Fedora 10.

Thanks for all the hard work! Keep it up.

James

[James Heather (j-heather)]

I've created a patch (see attached) to turn on antialiasing for programme names and for the time ruler that goes across the top in the horizontal view. This should work right back to Java 1.3.

It could do with someone looking to see how to get Java to use the system settings rather than having to turn it on manually. That would also mean that users with Java 1.6 could get proper subpixel rendering too.

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

Thanks James! I have applied this patch and it will appear in the next release.

I agree this should be handled properly, but this improves the situation. I won't log a bug about handling it properly since we are unlikely to get to that this millenium, unless someone who really cares about it steps up to do it :) We have a whole host of "update the code from the dark ages" type tasks that are similar issues. There's not much point tracking them until we have a contributor with the time to tick them off.