Installation slideshow: Tracking in large text is off
Bug #688512 reported by
Paul Sladen
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Paul Sladen | ||
Bug Description
Apparently the larger text rendered in the Ubuntu Font Family has broken kerning/tracking in the installer slideshow.
The relevant slides are HTML files that can be found in the 'ubiquity-
ubiquity-
This should be a manifestation of bug #617522 "does not use kerning tables at >20px (text-rendering: optimizeLegibil
ubiquity-gtk is using webkit; webkit had a patch included a year ago that enables the CSS "text-rendering: optimiseSpeed vs. optimizeLegibility" properties in a similar manner to Firefox. It may be enough to set these.
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Paul Sladen (sladen) |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| affects: | ubiquity (Ubuntu) → ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
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Thank you for pointing that out, Paul. Looks like optimizeLegibility does fix things in some places.
So, I'm committing the change you suggested. Here is a before and after screenshot for one title that changes noticeably:
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I don't have much of an eye for fonts, unfortunately. Please let me know if this can be improved any more :)