GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 762676
Kernin inconsistent between text input and chat
Last modified: 2018-05-22 19:08:31 UTC
Created attachment 322366 [details] Kerning problem example I've just installed a fresh Fedora 23 system and was testing out Empathy. Something was looking weird about the conversation text, and I eventually realized that the ongoing chat text widget doesn't seem to be doing font kerning correctly, but the message entry widget on the same window _is_ doing it correctly. I took a screenshot of a sentence I sent to a friend and the same text again in the message entry area (attached). You can see weird kerning in the top sentence all over the place, especially in the word "something". My Empathy package is empathy-3.12.11-3.fc23.x86_64. For entertainment: http://xkcd.com/1015/
Hi, Meyer I tested your case on Fedora 23 and have seen your attachment. The kerning in pre-edit sentence seems perfect to me except the read wave line. Could you please point which is the improper kerning during these characters?
It's hard to know where to start - almost every letter is spaced improperly. The best example is probably the word "doing", which has very strange spacing on either side of the "o". The word "funky" is also appropriately funky in its rendering. To be clear, I don't think the problem here is with the specific kerning on any particular letter. The font itself is apparently correct, since the same string looks alright in the message entry field. The message history widget doesn't seem to be laying out _any_ of its letters correctly.
Created attachment 324642 [details] the screen shot I use empathy 3.12.11 in fedora 23, but seems the "doing" is similar from each other. Generally, kerning is controlled by the font file, Maybe you can choose another font which can fit the width as expected.
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