On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:35 -0700, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
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> Isn't that a bit harsh to JetBrains? It seems to me that pretty much
> every single Java application (and even non-Java apps) have terrible
> font rendering problems on Linux.
> 
Yes and no.  Yes JetBrains are a good bunch of people and a lot of
people like and buy (or freetard :-) their products.

Every Java application on Linux looks totally crap, because Sun only
ever put real effort into getting the Windows graphics working, leaving
Solaris, Linux and Unix out in the cold.

Applications that work in harmony with GTK or Qt either on Gnome or KDE
have very good looking fonts — assuming the fonts outlines are good, and
the right hinting level for the outlines is used.
> 
> It's been this way for decades. That and bad scrolling speed in
> terminal windows (maybe the two are related).

That may be true on Windows, but OS X is sort of OK and Linux seems
fine.

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