GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 117334
Fonts in Epiphany look "ugly"
Last modified: 2005-07-05 17:43:42 UTC
After installing garnome 0.25.0 and then opening up Epiphany and going to slashdot.org I realized that something had happened to the font - they now look ugly. However if I go to Slashdot using the garnome installed mozilla it looks fine. Also if I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running epiphany the fonts also look fine. In the epiphany preferences under fonts and colors I can only select between the standard font (serif, sans-serif, monospace), and ClearlyU Alternate Glyphs.
Do you have the "Always use these fonts" preference selected?
I tried both with and without that setting - they look odd both ways. I'll attach a couple of screenshots later today to illustrate the problem.
Well if the "Always use these fonts" pref is off (which for most users it should always be), I'm not sure what can be causing the problem (or how it can be any different from mozilla).
Do you have the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable set? What are the results of the following commands: $ which mozilla $ which epiphany What are your PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables set to?
Created attachment 18314 [details] Epiphany without "Always use these fonts"
[maxx@ice:~]$ which mozilla ~/garnome/bin/mozilla [maxx@ice:~]$ which epiphany ~/garnome/bin/epiphany [maxx@ice:~]$ echo $PATH /home/maxx/garnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/maxx/bin:. [maxx@ice:~]$ echo $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME [maxx@ice:~]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/maxx/garnome/lib: [maxx@ice:~]$ That's all the basic info. I have attached screenshots of Epiphany with and without "Always use these fonts" and I have attached a screenshot of Mozilla.
Created attachment 18315 [details] Epiphany with "Always use these fonts" enabled
Created attachment 18316 [details] Mozilla
After checking again LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no effect on the fonts - I must have accidentally run /usr/bin/epiphany instead of the garnome version to get the nice-looking fonts.
Are you using the same font face/size in mozilla/epiphany ? The problem about not being able to select more fonts is fixed in 0.8.0
I'll check later with Epiphany 0.8.0 but the fonts I am using are serif, sans-serif, and monospace. As I understand it they should be my systems default font, so it should work. They are the same as the ones I have set in Mozilla. The font-size I use in Mozilla is 16 and in Epiphany it is 14 - however if I set it to 16 in Epiphany as well they just worse.
Just tried it with Epiphany 0.8.0 - no difference.
Mass re-assign
Does this still occur on more recent (2.8.2.1 and 2.9.x) release of GARNOME?
Another condidate to be closed FIXED. No additional info for a long time, no complaints either. The bug report is about a very old, outdated version. FWIW, I just checked stable GARNOME 2.10.0.something versions of Epiphany and Firefox. The fonts do look the very same. The fonts displayed by Epiphany just happen to be a little bit larger, and the line-height definitely seems to increase more then the font size (added too much space between lines) when increasing the font size. Anyway, if at all, this likely is an Epiphany issue and not a GARNOME related bug.
Epiphany font size is in pt, firefox font size in px. So Epiphany's are expected to be larger at the 'same' value.