Hello, On blogs.oracle.com there was an announcement of Java 8U40 availability. As far as I could tell from the release notes there were no changes made to provide better support for font rendering on *Nix systems - which is why I asked the following question on: https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/announcing_jdk_8_update_40
<quote> Question: where are the much needed font rendering fixes for *Nix platforms? Without tuxjdk (https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/) - which provides a number of patches on top of OpenJDK, my eyes would really bleed spending a whole day coding in Netbeans/Intellij or any swing based app on Linux. Is there a way to get these fixes into Java SE 8? For details on what tuxjdk is fixing check this out: https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/w/list </quote> A prompt answer was given in that a best approach would be to reach out to Swing Toolkit Group - which is what I'm now doing :-) So again: are there plans to give us developers that use Swing based tools (like Netbeans/Intellij) some decent font rendering on *Nix systems too? Googling on fonts, swing and *Nix does show that there are quite a few people suffering from 'bleeding eyes'. Thanks, -J.
