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  1. Bug #893859
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 893859

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Alexey S. Ignatiev (2sev) wrote : Re: [Bug 893859] Re: gnome-shell doesn't support subpixel smoothing

It's nice to hear that, although I don't know when subpixel smoothing will
be implemented in the upstream.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Ilja Sekler <email address hidden> wrote:

> > the big problem with a patched GNOME shell is that the fonts seem
> > being rendered using lcdlegacy filter, with horrible color fringes.
>
> Please scratch that. I was misguided by very thin shapes of the default
> Cantarell font at small font sizes, which do result in strong color
> fringes even with lcddefault. Replacing Cantarell in gnome-shell.css
> with DejaVuSans makes color fringes almost disappear. This rules out
> lcdlegacy filter.
>
> The patch works beautifully, my apologies for the noise.
>