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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
