dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.4 has very ugly default fonts, probably because it tries to use a font that doesn't exist on most systems. At least the font configuration file /opt/icedtea6-bin-1.4/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src suggests that a font called "DejaVu LGC Sans" is used as the default font, whereas on most systems only the "normal" dejavu sans font is available. It seems that other distros run into similar problems from time to time: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495988 Maybe the configuration should be changed to a font that can be installed easily on a default gentoo system?
Created attachment 188482 [details] ugly font example for java An example of how a java swing application looks like with icedtea6-bin.
Unlike Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE, Gentoo uses the default fontconfig, as there is no special clause to handle Gentoo: protected void setOsNameAndVersion() { super.setOsNameAndVersion(); if (!osName.equals("Linux")) { return; } try { File f; if ((f = new File("/etc/lsb-release")).canRead()) { /* Ubuntu and (perhaps others) use only lsb-release. * Syntax and encoding is compatible with java properties. * For Ubuntu the ID is "Ubuntu". */ Properties props = new Properties(); props.load(new FileInputStream(f)); osName = props.getProperty("DISTRIB_ID"); osVersion = props.getProperty("DISTRIB_RELEASE"); } else if ((f = new File("/etc/redhat-release")).canRead()) { osName = "RedHat"; osVersion = getVersionString(f); } else if ((f = new File("/etc/SuSE-release")).canRead()) { osName = "SuSE"; osVersion = getVersionString(f); } else if ((f = new File("/etc/turbolinux-release")).canRead()) { osName = "Turbo"; osVersion = getVersionString(f); } else if ((f = new File("/etc/fedora-release")).canRead()) { osName = "Fedora"; osVersion = getVersionString(f); } else if ((f = new File("/etc/sun-release")).canRead()) { osName = "Sun"; osVersion = getVersionString(f); } catch (Exception e) { if (SunGraphicsEnvironment.debugFonts) { Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("sun.awt.FontConfiguration"); logger.warning("Exception identifying Linux distro."); } } We could easily enough patch this to check /etc/gentoo-release and use our own dedicated fontconfig.
I'm not sure it's just the fontconfig files, I copied what we have in sun-jdk-1.6 (fontconfig.properties and .src and .bfc) and it still looks ugly, non-aliased etc.
Unlink sun-jdk, icedtea6 doesn't use X style font settings (e.g. -misc-dejavu sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1). It use the human readable font names instead (e.g. DejaVu Sans). But it seems the settings in fontconfig.properties doesn't use media-libs/fontconfig, and we need to give it the paths of the font files. I've tried to set sansserif.*, serif.*, etc in fontconfig.properties to "Sans Serif", "Serif", or "DejaVu Sans". It doesn't work at all. Ideally I think icedtea should support fontconfig and dump fontconfig.properties completely.
I am hitting this bug for dev-java/icedtea6-1.6.2-r1 from java-overlay as well. (Should this go into a separate bug report?) I did the following: # umask 0022 # sed -e 's/ LGC / /' -e 's/_LGC_/_/' -e 's/-lgc//' -e 's/LGC//' /usr/lib/icedtea6/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src > /usr/lib/icedtea6/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties This improved the situation for me (the newly generated file has higher priority than the existing .bfd file). http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/fontconfig.html explains how fontconfig files are searched by the JRE.
For russian lang fonts unusable: http://gallery.evadim.ru/d/443-2/2009-09-21-145031.png java: dev-java/icedtea6-1.6.2-r2 USE="javascript nsplugin -cacao -debug -doc -examples -nio2 -pulseaudio -systemtap -xrender -zero" 0 kB [1] [1] /usr/local/layman/java-overlay
(In reply to comment #5) > I did the following: > # umask 0022 > # sed -e 's/ LGC / /' -e 's/_LGC_/_/' -e 's/-lgc//' -e 's/LGC//' > /usr/lib/icedtea6/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src > > /usr/lib/icedtea6/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties Note that DejaVu (as installed by media-fonts/dejavu-2.29) doesn't have oblique serif font files, only "real" italics, so the above command should maybe rather be # sed -e 's/ LGC / /' -e 's/_LGC_/_/' -e 's/-lgc//' -e 's/LGC//' -e 's/Serif-Oblique/Serif-Italic/' -e 's/Serif-BoldOblique/Serif-BoldItalic/' fontconfig.properties.src > fontconfig.properties.new
I hitted an issue with missing glyphs for Cyrillic characters in sci-geosciences/josm. The problem seems to stem from the .src suffix in the fontconfig.properties files that Gentoo ebuilds install for icedtea. I copied fontconfig.Fedora.properties.src to fontconfig.properties, and now I see nice DejaVu fonts, including Cyrillic glyphs. (Using dev-java/icedtea-6.1.8.0)
A copy of the Fedora fontset is provided for Gentoo by a patch for 1.7.4 and 1.8.1 in java-overlay. Please try this and report back.
(In reply to comment #9) > A copy of the Fedora fontset is provided for Gentoo by a patch for 1.7.4 and > 1.8.1 in java-overlay. Please try this and report back. > Works for me, thanks! (dev-java/icedtea-6.1.8.1-r1)
Released in icedtea6-bin-1.8.1-r1 as well.
(In reply to comment #9) > A copy of the Fedora fontset is provided for Gentoo by a patch for 1.7.4 and > 1.8.1 in java-overlay. Please try this and report back. > work for me too
A fixed version is now stable, closing.
Created attachment 352616 [details] tvbrowser-ugly-font.png With icedtea-bin-6.1.12.5 (current stable in tree), I still have the problem as described in this bug, see attached screenshot of a tvbrowser dialog window. So it is not fixed. With the sun-jdk, there are no such problems. IIRC, icedtea-bin-7 shows the same problem. Now that sun-jdk has become hard-masked, and icedtea-bin is considered the way to go, this is really not ideal. With sun-jdk unmasked and installed, icedtea-bin is still drawn in, as it is no longer optional which jvm one chooses.
