Lucida Sans that comes with jre has a similar overkerning issue for application menu titles. This is not a font bug as far as I'm concerned.
Strangely Firefox does not have the problem while other Gtk+ apps do. -- DejaVu fonts shows "tighted" https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35470 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
