Ha! Sure enough, the quickest way to get a bug to manifest is to deny its existence. It is NOT fixed globally in Oneiric. I made 2 useage changes in the past few weeks that contributed to my not noticing any flaws: 1) switched primary browser from Firefox to Chrome, and 2) switched terminator shell's font from "Monospace 8pt" to "Ubuntu Mono 8pt". I just changed the terminator font back a day or two ago and yep, it's wrecked again.
Observations:
- bug manifests in terminator shell with "Monospace 8pt" font, but not with "Ubuntu Mono" at any size. After changing font sizes and faces for a while, the bug is completely gone from the font chooser, and does not appear in the shell after closing prefs --- buuuuut, after switching to another app for a while the font is once again damaged in a novel way. This happens with "Monospace" only, as far as I can see.
- bug does not manifest in Chrome 14.0.835.186 at all. (see zooming note below)
- bug manifests in Thunderbird 7.0.1 in html emails, but NOT in message lists, menus, etc.
- browser view zooming causes what? font re-rendering? In Firefox, zooming in and out repeatedly with ctl+, ctl- caused the bug to appear *almost* at random. Sometimes the fonts were damaged in the same way, but after a few passes the damage changed location, moving from letter to letter and line to line. No *pattern* of change was observed, per se. The same actions in Chrome did not provoke any damaged fonts to appear, even using the same page as with Firefox.
Ha! Sure enough, the quickest way to get a bug to manifest is to deny its existence. It is NOT fixed globally in Oneiric. I made 2 useage changes in the past few weeks that contributed to my not noticing any flaws: 1) switched primary browser from Firefox to Chrome, and 2) switched terminator shell's font from "Monospace 8pt" to "Ubuntu Mono 8pt". I just changed the terminator font back a day or two ago and yep, it's wrecked again.
Observations:
- bug manifests in terminator shell with "Monospace 8pt" font, but not with "Ubuntu Mono" at any size. After changing font sizes and faces for a while, the bug is completely gone from the font chooser, and does not appear in the shell after closing prefs --- buuuuut, after switching to another app for a while the font is once again damaged in a novel way. This happens with "Monospace" only, as far as I can see.
- bug does not manifest in Chrome 14.0.835.186 at all. (see zooming note below)
- bug manifests in Firefox 7.0.1 -- nb. compared same page [ http:// getfirebug. com/firstrun# Firebug% 201.8.4] in both firefox and chrome.
- bug manifests in Thunderbird 7.0.1 in html emails, but NOT in message lists, menus, etc.
- browser view zooming causes what? font re-rendering? In Firefox, zooming in and out repeatedly with ctl+, ctl- caused the bug to appear *almost* at random. Sometimes the fonts were damaged in the same way, but after a few passes the damage changed location, moving from letter to letter and line to line. No *pattern* of change was observed, per se. The same actions in Chrome did not provoke any damaged fonts to appear, even using the same page as with Firefox.