gnome-shell doesn't support subpixel smoothing
Bug #893859 reported by
Alexey S. Ignatiev
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Shell |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently Gnome Shell does not support LCD font smoothing and now the shell's fonts looks terrible. It is said in gnome-shell's sources that the reason is "clutter doesn't currently have the code to support ARGB masks". I don't know what the problem is, but I wrote a simple patch that implements subpixel antialiasing in gnome-shell. And it works fine for me. After testing it for about 2 weeks I don't see any problems with it.
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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