Doing a little triage here.
Per font-manager's description:
Font Manager is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage
desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing
configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the GNOME Desktop
Environment in mind, it should work well with other Gtk+ desktop environments.
As this has nothing to do with the rendering of fonts, such as anti-
aliasing, this means this bug is invalid for font-manager.
Also, since we have actual packages, removing the Ubuntu project as
affected, even though specific packages are affected, so don't panic
with this move.
** Changed in: font-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** No longer affects: ubuntu
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Title:
Lack of LCD antialiasing in GNOME in Ubuntu 24.10 (24.04 the most
probably too) is showstopper for migration
Status in font-manager package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gnome-desktop package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gtk4 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
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.
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
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