Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
The "Group" selection buttons in gnome-control-center render with little
jagged edges, as if hinting was turned off for them. The rest of the
control centre uses the desktop wide hinting (I haven't changed it from
the install default)
It's not on the "Group" label, but on the buttons in that section. From
a quick glance at the code they appear to be a composite widget called a
'tile'.
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Font rendering bug in Gnome Control Centre sidebar
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84346
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Here is a screenshot. I used the screen magnifier to get a closeup of
the problem. The mouse cursor was above the "System" button making it
highlighted and raised.
If you look at the letter 'e' in "System" and "Other" you can see that
one has darker hinted pixels than the other (due to the differe
Well, it may be regarded as a low priority visual bug. I only reported
it because it is rather jarring.
The fonts are "correct" but because the hinting interacts with the
darker background it essentially looks like a monochrome (black and
background) font instead of having the gradations of grey
I just checked the current control center (1:2.18.0-0ubuntu1) in feisty
and the bug is fixed/gone.
Probably due to some changes in libslab which provides the widget in
question.
It's a little puzzling why it appeared in the first place because I
perused the libslab code and it looked very straigh
