[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2019906] Re: 24.04 : condensed, bold and black fonts can't be used for interface and title bar

2024-04-28 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags removed: lunar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019906 Title: 24.04 : condensed, bold and black fonts can't be used for interface and title bar St

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2059997] [NEW] Regression: Terminal font is missing when fonts-ubuntu-classic is installed

2024-04-01 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Public bug reported: The Terminal font is missing when fonts-ubuntu-classic is installed on noble. ** Affects: fonts-ubuntu-classic (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Tags: noble visual-quality ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2024-04-01 22-18-42.png" https://bugs.

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2036274] Re: Cyrillic characters not spaced correctly when printing with Ubuntu Bold font

2023-09-18 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Summary changed: - Printing Ubuntu Bold font - strange symbol + Cyrillic characters not spaced correctly when printing with Ubuntu Bold font ** Changed in: fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New ** Also affects: cups (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Yo

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2036274] Re: Printing Ubuntu Bold font - strange symbol

2023-09-18 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Please try printing to a PDF or PS file so we can see if the error exists in the data being printed, or just in the final printout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2036274] Re: Printing Ubuntu Bold font - strange symbol

2023-09-18 Thread Daniel van Vugt
To confirm it's installed properly, please reboot and also verify the Ubuntu font looks a little different now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2036274 Title:

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2036274] Re: Printing Ubuntu Bold font - strange symbol

2023-09-18 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I'm not sure this will work for 23.04 but please try installing https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-ubuntu- classic/0.83-6ubuntu2/+build/26430042/+files/fonts-ubuntu- classic_0.83-6ubuntu2_all.deb from 23.10. It will "downgrade" the Ubuntu font to the old one. Assuming it installs correctly

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2036274] Re: Printing Ubuntu Bold font - strange symbol

2023-09-17 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal: apport-collect 2036274 When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu- bu

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-09-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Package changed: fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) => language-pack-gnome-en (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: language-pack-gnome-en-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ub

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-09-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
If I understand correctly the offending character is U+2236 ("RATIO") (UTF-8: e2 88 b6) but that's part of the Unicode Mathematical Operators block for which neither the new or old Ubuntu fonts have any support. So it doesn't make sense to blame this on the Ubuntu fonts. What I think is happenin

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-09-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Yes it does feel like a regression in the font package which is why this bug is assigned to that. We should find a way to extract the unicode for the colon being used in US English and see what it looks like in the new font to see if just the new font is to blame. -- You received this bug notific

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-09-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I think this is a consequence of failing to customise region settings, which feels like a recent installer change. I've asked around and the only feedback I've got has been that failing to customise region settings *is* a bug. But at the same time it doesn't make sense for us to mis-render the col

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-09-03 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Would I be correct in thinking only the second one in that list is free from the bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2033377 Title: New whitespace between d

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-08-31 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Perhaps confirm the theory that the bug only occurs when $LANG is set to C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2033377 Title: New whitespace

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-08-31 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Is this perhaps a new installer bug? Is the mantic installer failing to apply language and region settings? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2033377 Title: Ne

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2033377] Re: New whitespace between digits and colon in time at top of desktop screen

2023-08-31 Thread Daniel van Vugt
It looks like the unusual colon character is the default (so used by US and C locales): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/-/merge_requests/66/diffs#5c873de36a1b57f9c8b16c7fb9cd64292a431fb2_154_156 So is it just how the new Ubuntu font renders the USA time separator? ** Also affects: f

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2025282] Re: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10

2023-06-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
No problem. Please open a separate issue for each specific rendering problem upstream at: https://github.com/canonical/Ubuntu-fonts/issues -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2025282] Re: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10

2023-06-28 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags removed: visual-quality -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2025282 Title: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10 Status in fonts-ubuntu package i

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2025282] Re: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10

2023-06-28 Thread Daniel van Vugt
The old font looks better to me too, but I think this is a design decision that's probably here to stay. We have two workarounds on the way: 1. The ability to install the old "legacy" Ubuntu font side-by-side. 2. The ability to change the font weight in GNOME Tweaks (bug 2019906 needs fixing). -

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2025282] Re: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10

2023-06-28 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags added: a11y lunar mantic visual-quality -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2025282 Title: UI fonts in 23.04 look bad compared to 22.10 Status in fonts-

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2019906] Re: 23.04 : condensed, bold and black fonts can't be used for interface and title bar

2023-05-18 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Summary changed: - 23.04 : condensed fonts can't be used for interface and title bar + 23.04 : condensed, bold and black fonts can't be used for interface and title bar ** Package changed: gnome-tweaks (Ubuntu) => gnome-shell (Ubuntu) ** Tags added: lunar -- You received this bug notificat

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 2019045] Re: [snap] New Ubuntu font with normal weight displayed as bold in Google Docs in Chromium after upgrading to Lunar

2023-05-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags added: lunar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019045 Title: [snap] New Ubuntu font with normal weight displayed as bold in Google Docs in Chromium

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1973474] Re: Rename "Pin to Dash" to "Pin to Dock"

2022-05-17 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Ironically I'm dealing with ubuntu-dock code right now that mentions "dock.dash" as in the dash is a member of the Ubuntu dock. But that's an implementation detail... Given how freely extensions might change things I would lean toward never mentioning "dash" or "dock" in menu items. Like "Move to

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1973474] Re: Rename "Pin to Dash" to "Pin to Dock"

2022-05-16 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I'm not sure I agree with this, but do appreciate the wording is confusing in a world of dash and dock. * Regular users are less likely to understand "pinned" as much as "favourites". * Power users may have no dock, only a dash, and so the existing wording is correct. * It's a patch we would have

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1971072] Re: Missing new Ubuntu logo (2022)

2022-05-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags added: jammy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971072 Title: Missing new Ubuntu logo (2022) Status in fonts-ubuntu package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bu

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1755510] Re: Ubuntu font causes small glitch in GDM

2019-01-07 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1743058 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743058 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1736452 Password field changes height as you type in it ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1743058 Input field height changes slightly when enter

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1736452] Re: Password field changes height as you type in it

2019-01-07 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1743058 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743058 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1743058 Input field height changes slightly when entering in st password fields. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Document

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1736452] Re: Password field changes height as you type in it

2018-08-08 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags added: bionic cosmic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736452 Title: Password field changes height as you type in it Status in fonts-ubuntu package i

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1512111] Re: "Ubuntu Light" font has heavier weight than "Ubuntu"

2018-01-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Partially confirmed on bionic, but maybe not. LibreOffice writer: Bug exists and "Light" is heavier if you type in "Ubuntu Light". However if you use "Ubuntu" and right-click on text to choose Character... > Style=Light, then it is correctly lighter. No bug. gnome-font-viewer: No bug (light is in

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-16 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Yeah I noticed QML_DISABLE_DISTANCEFIELD=1 made no improvement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536751 Title: Font/text rendering is irregula

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** No longer affects: qtmir -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536751 Title: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
It might be acceptable if the hinting was higher quality, but I think that would require caching of whole strings (possibly with kerning) rather than caching of individual glyphs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubun

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Also the two lower-case u's in "Ubuntu App Test" have particularly different appearance. It seems Qt is placing glyphs according to a higher fractional precision than the resolution of the display, which while technically correct also creates unacceptable blurring of text at low DPI. -- You rece

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I can now see part of the problem more clearly. If you look at labels that contain the same letter multiple times like "Calculator" or "Security & Privacy", then it becomes apparent that the clarity of that same letter changes depending on where it is in the word. Given that Qt caches individual

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Also affects: qtdeclarative-opensource-src (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536751 Title

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-10-25 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Found this image today, showing Unity8's font rendering next to GTK's: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/290523497/IMG_1258.JPG ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed i

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-10-25 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Technically not really a High bug, but we should keep a close eye on the number of visual regressions in Unity8 compared to Unity7. So that overall problem is itself High. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-07-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: unity8-desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-07-13 Thread Daniel van Vugt
When it's fully extended the fonts look bad. So this is not a texture coordinate problem. I think the surface texture is correctly pixel aligned but we haven't yet made sure the font hinting within the surface is also pixel-aligned. Unity7 text still looks nicer and more polished than Unity8. --

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-07-13 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Just noticed this bug again, now in System Settings. On Unity7 it's perfectly clear (sub-pixel RGB) but in Unity8 it's slightly blurry (greyscale is used). So that's the first part of the problem. The second part of the problem is that Unity8 (especially in the indicator pulldown) failing to apply

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Yeah thanks. Sub-pixel appears to partially work, although I suspect we have the RGB/BGR ordering backwards. And that's not surprising because of bug 1393578. Unity8 has no way of knowing the correct sub-pixel ordering while Mir doesn't provide it. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel van Vugt
It just occurred to me, the visual quality of text rendering would improve a lot with sub-pixel rendering vs the greyscale rendering we see. So Mir needs to expose sub-pixel ordering information before we can do that --> bug 1393578 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-05-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Tags added: visual-quality -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536751 Title: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-05-17 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Reopened again. Although the situation definitely got better at the start of April, font rendering in Unity8 still looks quite poor when compared to Unity7. The problem might just be misaligned textures like Unity8 bug 1510382. ** Changed in: harfbuzz (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New **

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-04-03 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Seems to be totally fixed in xenial today! Can anyone confirm what package fixed it? ** Changed in: harfbuzz (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-03-14 Thread Daniel van Vugt
The problem is seemingly reduced in xenial now with the new visual design. But the problem is not eliminated. Fonts in the indicator pulldown (on desktop) are still not very well pixel aligned. At a guess, it looks like we might have made any of these mistakes: (a) Insufficient hinting (b)

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 1536751] Re: Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens

2016-02-02 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Summary changed: - QML Unreadable small fonts on 1366x768 screen + Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI screens -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu.

[Documentation-packages] [Bug 724022] Re: [21 new] Allow use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font

2015-03-09 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Beware of bug 433897. For many of us, the console font is (randomly) never set (on random machines). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family- sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022 Titl