On 2016-02-18 12:46 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > 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.
Forgot to specify the package: freetype. Marc. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
