** Description changed: Hallo, GTK4 dropped by design / by purpose LCD antialiasing for fonts - Gnome devs are in fact declaring, that users should move to 4K or better screens (and they drop even efforts of fixing it, if I understand correctly). I tried to migrate from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.10, but it failed because of bad experience and eyes problems. 24.04 seems to be affected too. I will just add, that this type of antialiasing was with us from ca. 2000 year (Microsoft added smth like this with the name Clear Type). More specific: pls look into https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue- antialiasing and fonts examples - 22.04 version has got clear/color/sharp edges and 24.x version has got gray edges. + + Note: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/steam-hardware-software- + survey-welcome-to-steam says, that Full HD is used by 56% users and 2K + by 25% (it gives 81% !) Questions: 1. how to correctly address this issue? (Gnome Discourse bugs and threads are closed or ignored) 2. If I understand correctly, Canonical is part of GNOME Foundation. Is it possible to discuss it internally? 3. Is it possible to ask for customized Gnome for Ubuntu or have very official statement, what will be done with this? (this could be clear info for people, if they should wait for resolving it and stay with 22.04 or migrate to other distributions) There are more people with this problem. Below some links about fonts problems in new GTK (some resolved only in small part): https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/mojgbv/poor_font_rendering_in_gtk4_apps/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue-antialiasing https://discourse.gnome.org/t/solved-why-gnome-uses-grayscale-antialiasing-method-by-default/1316 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-and-gtk-apps-can-be-source-of-eyes-problems/25625 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gtk4-loss-of-functionality-no-lcd-antialiasing/25752 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/increasing-font-weight-in-gnome-libadwaita-for-better-readability/18810 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4926 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7197 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6190 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/3393 Please help. With kinds regards, Marcin
** Description changed: Hallo, GTK4 dropped by design / by purpose LCD antialiasing for fonts - Gnome devs are in fact declaring, that users should move to 4K or better screens (and they drop even efforts of fixing it, if I understand correctly). I tried to migrate from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.10, but it failed because of bad experience and eyes problems. 24.04 seems to be affected too. I will just add, that this type of antialiasing was with us from ca. 2000 year (Microsoft added smth like this with the name Clear Type). More specific: pls look into https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue- antialiasing and fonts examples - 22.04 version has got clear/color/sharp edges and 24.x version has got gray edges. Note: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/steam-hardware-software- survey-welcome-to-steam says, that Full HD is used by 56% users and 2K by 25% (it gives 81% !) Questions: 1. how to correctly address this issue? (Gnome Discourse bugs and threads are closed or ignored) 2. If I understand correctly, Canonical is part of GNOME Foundation. Is it possible to discuss it internally? 3. Is it possible to ask for customized Gnome for Ubuntu or have very official statement, what will be done with this? (this could be clear info for people, if they should wait for resolving it and stay with 22.04 or migrate to other distributions) There are more people with this problem. Below some links about fonts problems in new GTK (some resolved only in small part): https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/mojgbv/poor_font_rendering_in_gtk4_apps/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue-antialiasing https://discourse.gnome.org/t/solved-why-gnome-uses-grayscale-antialiasing-method-by-default/1316 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-and-gtk-apps-can-be-source-of-eyes-problems/25625 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gtk4-loss-of-functionality-no-lcd-antialiasing/25752 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/increasing-font-weight-in-gnome-libadwaita-for-better-readability/18810 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4926 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7197 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6190 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/3393 + https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1hsrbcg/bad_fonts_look_in_latest_gnome_is_stopping_me/ Please help. With kinds regards, Marcin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2092667 Title: Lack of LCD antialiasing in GNOME in Ubuntu 24.10 (24.04 the most probably too) is showstopper for migration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/font-manager/+bug/2092667/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
