Hi,

I just witnessed an odd phenomenon and I'm wondering if it's a sign of a 
problem or an aspect of the way font rendering operates (I can imagine 
it either way).

Specifically, I opened the Beagle window by clicking its tray icon. When 
the window appears, the fonts were extremely ragged. I decided to take 
a snapshot, so I used the system (KDE / Geeko) menu to launch 
KSnapshot. I took a picture of the Beagle window. While I was doing so, 
I was paying attention only to the KSnapshot interface and had 
neglected to really watch the Beagle window. When I finally dismissed 
the KSnapshot window (after capturing and saving the picture) I was 
startled to see that the ragged font display had been replaced with a 
properly smoothed one. I've seen the phenomenon repeat itself after 
this first instance (again in the Beagle GUI).


So my question is this: Is this a bug or is there some kind of 
asynchronous rendering of smoothed fonts that sometimes leads to a 
ragged font display upon first use of a given font but which is later 
replaced with the smoothed version, once the smoothed glyphs have been 
rendered?


Randall "curious cat" Schulz
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