GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319027
Nautilus' statusbar doesn't respect hinting settings
Last modified: 2005-11-15 21:54:02 UTC
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4 1. Select "Hinting: None" in the "Font Rendering Details" dialog. 2. Open /etc in Nautilus and select the file DIR_COLORS. 3. Verify the contents of Nautilus' statusbar. Expected results: "DIR_COLORS" selected (2.5 KB) Actual results: "DIR COLORS" selected (2.5 KB)
Created attachment 53564 [details] Screenshot
thanks for your bug. nautilus is not responsive for the font rendering. I'm not sure that's a GNOME bug, reassigning to pango, they will probably know if it should be closed as NOTGNOME.
I can't really tell from the screenshot whether that's hinted or not. Can you attach a screenshot of the same font in the same text elsewhere? Does it matter if you change the setting on the fly or if it is set on login? If it's just on the fly, the explanation is problem that Nautilus has overridden the style for the status bar in a bad way (gtk_widget_set_style) and that blocks the way that GTK+ tells widgets to redraw on antialiasing settings.
The statusbar text in screenshot #1 is without hinting. I always log in with hinting set to "None". My application font is set to "Bitstream Vera Sans" at size 9. Changing the hinting settings on-the-fly in the Font Rendering Details dialog will show the underscore character correctly for "Slight", "Medium" and "Full", but not for "None".
This is already fixed in 1.10.0 I believe, but only for Xft backend (which is the case on FC4). So you should get it fixed when installing Pango 1.10.0. The Pango backend is filed as another bug. Dupping. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307196 ***