On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:20:02PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> The only Gtk+2-based apps that I run all the time are Firefox and
> Transmission. I'm not sure if the deficiencies I see are due to
> Gtk+2 and related libraries or the apps themselves. Anyway, for
> the record, here's my list of annoyances:
>
> * Icon size.
> When I iconize the application, the window manager (fvwm, mwm)
> ends up displaying some small or outright tiny icon. 48x48 icons
> are installed, why aren't they used? Is this somehow configurable?
> (No, I don't mean configuring the window manager to override the
> application icon.)
>
> * Chromatic aberration.
> When I run the application on a remote X11 display, some fonts
> (e.g. the one used for the menus) have colored fringes. I don't
> know if this is some sort of anti-aliasing gone wrong, but it
> looks a lot like chromatic aberration in analog optics. This is
> definitely a problem that affects all Gtk+2-based applications.
That's caused by fontconfig. You might want to create a ~/.fonts.conf
with this:
<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter" >
<const>lcdnone</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
lcdfilter does affect subpixel (color) hinting (i think), while hintstyle
seems to affect the "crispness".
http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html for possible values.
>
> * Broken combining characters.
> This concerns Firefox specifically, but I suspect the problem is
> in some underlying libraries. Combining characters are not
> displayed correctly. It's very visible on Wikipedia. Diacritic
> marks in IPA (say, the tilde for nasal vowels) are missing or
> squished into the base character. Over on the Russian Wikipedia,
> the stress marks on the headwords float over extra space. The
> combination of lynx and uxterm can display this better.
>
> None of this is new and I guess it isn't OpenBSD-specific either,
> but it is time somebody mentioned it at least.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
>
>
