| Summary: | Poor font rendering in Netbeans - Infinality patch | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | clavko |
| Component: | [OLD] Java | Assignee: | Java team <java> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | tdalman |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Infinality patch for OpenJDK
Differrences in font rendering of Java application patch for icedtea-7.2.4.1.ebuild to apply the infinality-font.patch |
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Created attachment 354668 [details]
Differrences in font rendering of Java application
I noticed that, too. Created attachment 359184 [details, diff]
patch for icedtea-7.2.4.1.ebuild to apply the infinality-font.patch
Currently the package is building so i cannot say how fonts will look at runtime. At least the patch was applied in the build log.
I set CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="8G" because on my box, /var/tmp is mounted as a tmpfs and i need the remaining memory ;). That setting has nothing to do with the font patch (but as far as i can tell right now, 4G should be sufficient too).
The patch for the ebuild was created with minimum effort so feel free to enhance it!
Okay, the package build is done. I see a huge improvement in jconsole compared to my other installed jvm icedtea-bin-7. But still netbeans does not render the fonts nicely. Probably, that is because i downloaded the installer from netbeans.org which might bring its own jvm. As a side node, i watched the disk usage at my /var/tmp. According to "du", 7,87G was used at max... so it might be better if you let the CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD untouched ;). The patch was applied in 2.5.0 and is enabled by the infinality USE flag. Fixed. See Andrew's last comment. |
Created attachment 354666 [details, diff] Infinality patch for OpenJDK Currently, the IcedTea (OpenJDK) is not respecting font settings that would allow better font rendering in Java applications. Given that Netbeans is an coding environment, it might be useful to add a USE flag to the icedtea package which would apply attached patch to the code tree. Difference in rendering can be viewed in attached image.