On Sunday 12 November 2006 20:01, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 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?
>

I just tried under KDE in openSUSE 10.2 beta 2 and the same hapends here. 
Quite strange. It is enough to go to another window and then return to Kerry 
to get the fonts properly rendered.

Hugo Costelha
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