BTW, the source of this defect's problem is that GTK/Gnome takes font configuration from its own settings (managed by gconf) and applies it to the font rendering engine when drawing as far as I understand. This configuration may differ from the system configuration of the font engine maintained in /etc/fonts and as a result, any non-GTK/Gnome application may look differently if there are mismatches.
There are even more curious problems caused by this two this two-source configuration scheme. For example, If you add "rgba=rgb" to one of /etc/fonts files, then the Subpixel order setting from Appearance/Fonts won't take any effect at all: the subpixel order will always stay "rgb", and so on. I understand that Gnome people maintain their own configuration because they want to have the changes in the font settings immediately visible in running GTK applications. Unless the system font renderer instance used by gnome-terminal/Qt3/Qt4 may be reconfigured w/o restarting X, I don't think there is an acceptable solution that could provide instant configuration synchronization. But at least gnome-terminal may be fixed so that it takes *all* font settings from gconf instead of falling back to system (/etc/fonts) configuration for some of them (like hinting). -- Font height is not the same as in other applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287578 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
