The fonts look terrible in the source-compiled Firefox-3.0.1 and OpenOffice-2.4.1. I'm not sure if it's a problem with those applications or a larger problem with GTK fonts in KDE (I'm using KDE). The fonts look beautiful in the binary version of OpenOffice. I don't think it's a problem with the font I've picked. The Times New Roman in the source-compiled version looks very different (terrible) compared to the one in the binary version. Same for other fonts. I've tried installing gtk-engines-qt and it doesn't seem to have any effect. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 162395 [details] Screenshot of binary OpenOffice
Created attachment 162396 [details] Screenshot of source-compiled OpenOffice
Please post your `emerge --info' too.
Created attachment 162404 [details] emerge --info Attached. Thanks for taking a look!
Maybe GNOME people can shed light on this matter.
I see it too in openoffice on amd64, but have no idea what causes it. I just use oo.o-bin, anyway. Firefox is fine on all my boxes.
Same here with KDE 3.5.10 with Firefox 3.0.3 but not with OpenOffice. I've been using gtk-engines-qt without problems. I've not updated Firefox, neither gtk-engines-qt.
(In reply to comment #7) > Same here with KDE 3.5.10 with Firefox 3.0.3 but not with OpenOffice. I've been > using gtk-engines-qt without problems. > > I've not updated Firefox, neither gtk-engines-qt. > It shows blue colors as orange color, and orange as blue. They are complementary.
(In reply to comment #0) > The fonts look terrible in the source-compiled Firefox-3.0.1 and > OpenOffice-2.4.1. I'm not sure if it's a problem with those applications or a > larger problem with GTK fonts in KDE (I'm using KDE). > > The fonts look beautiful in the binary version of OpenOffice. I don't think > it's a problem with the font I've picked. The Times New Roman in the > source-compiled version looks very different (terrible) compared to the one in > the binary version. Same for other fonts. > > I've tried installing gtk-engines-qt and it doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Reproducible: Always > I've solved it downgrading fontconfig from 2.6.0-r2 to 2.5.0-r1.
@fonts, any hints about what was wrong here ?
Closing needinfo for an update. gnome has nothing to say here as it is most likely something related to the fact that oo.o-bin ships its own fontconfig. If/when you re-open this bug with updated informations, I suggest CCing oo.o maintainers, they should be better informed.
