My edgy has the same problem. But I get even more unreadable text because of (I think) the anti- aliasing on the font once the progress bar has advanced past the text.
See attached screenshot. ** Attachment added: "Hard to read text on progress bar in edgy" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7092345/Screenshot-Downloading%20package%20information.png -- Progress bar text is hard to read when progress indicator is halfway through the character https://launchpad.net/bugs/29508 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
