Hi Barry, On 2016-02-18 11:34 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I have noticed a strange font problem with today's Xenial dist-upgrade, and > I'm wondering if anybody else has seen anything, or has any information. I'm > happy to file bugs, if I can figure out where to file them. :/ > > So far, I've only noticed the problem in claws-mail, but since I'm running the > exact same version both before and after the problematic dist-upgrade, I don't > believe the bug is there. Something Else has changed, but I haven't figure > out what yet. > > Fortunately, I have a VM on which I can take disk snapshots so I've proven to > myself that I'm not hallucinating. I took a screen capture before and after a > dist-upgrade and there is very definitely some font display differences. > Claws is configured to use Sans 10 in the summary display and Ubuntu Mono 14 > in the message display. > > After the dist-upgrade, Sans is looking a little more vertically squished and > Ubuntu Mono is looking a bit more horizontally spread out. > > I can post some sanitized before and after screenshots if needed. I may have > to bisect the dist-upgrade to find the culprit. > > Has anybody else seen very recent font weirdness? >
That's probably because I finally removed the precise-era revert_scalable_fonts_metric.patch patch. Upstream freetype says it's wrong, and other distros don't carry it. Marc. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
