I have tried to change the font hinting policy from "Slight" to "Full" on Ubuntu 18.04 (installing a "gnome-tweak" package) but it doesn't seem to affect the Netbeans fonts at all (or any other ui fonts, for that matter)... With the "gasp" setting I'm still getting anti-aliased fonts in the nb editor and output windows, but not in the other swing components (menus, labels, tree views, buttons, etc.)
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 18:58, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, according to the release notes the default setting on Windows should > be "gasp" and on Linux should be "on", If you switch it to "gasp" on Linux > then the anti-aliasing is gone. > > On linux the rendering is also affected by the desktop font hinting > policy, which (I do not know why) at least on Ubuntu is set to "Slight" If > you set it to "Moderate" or "Full" the whole Linux UI got a better look > including NetBeans fonts. > > (Of course you need to use fonts which provides hints.) > On 11/6/18 9:20 AM, Aldo Brucale wrote: > > I've found this answer on stackoverflow > <https://stackoverflow.com/a/26882303/57441> suggesting to set > -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp. This setting seems to completely > disable font anti-aliasing for all the UI elements, but to me it looks > better than the other options. The anti-aliasing of the editor and output > window fonts still doesn't look as good as it used to, but it's definitely > usable. > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 12:15, Aldo Brucale <bruc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've added a few screenshots to NETBEANS-1344 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1344?focusedCommentId=16658817&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16658817> >> >> On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 18:07, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Could you attach screenshots to >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1344 showing the >>> difference between using Java 8, Java 10 and (Java 11 + >>> -J-Djdk.gtk.version=2.2 >>> and -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on) >>> >>> I've just tested with Ubuntu 18.10 on Gnome 3 desktop. NetBeans is kind >>> of ugly even with the recommended settings. Using Unity Desktop it looks as >>> gorgeous as before. In order to look consistently good, you need to use >>> something else than GTK LAF. Darcula works well. >>> >>> On 10/18/2018 04:00 AM, Aldo Brucale wrote: >>> >>> On Ubuntu 18.04 I've tried to set both -J-Djdk.gtk.version=2.2 and >>> -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on: Netbeans surely looks better, but >>> still not enough for my daily work. Except for the tests, I'll stick with >>> Java 8 or 10 for now. >>> >>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 11:00, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 06:51, Laszlo Kishalmi < >>>> laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > Blame JDK and Gnome. >>>> >>>> I realise there are some open JDK bugs, but are we sure how much is >>>> JDK? There's a lot of stuff going on in o.n.swing.plaf - just >>>> wondering if there's stuff going on in GtkLFCustoms that's making >>>> assumptions that no longer apply with GTK3? >>>> >>>> >>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/tree/master/platform/o.n.swing.plaf/src/org/netbeans/swing/plaf/gtk >>>> >>>> Best wishes, >>>> >>>> Neil >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: netcat-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: netcat-h...@netbeans.apache.org >>>> >>>> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >>>> >>>> >>>
