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abengoam | 11 years ago

Any concrete example of issues with Swing, or just general discomfort?

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staticelf|11 years ago

The font rendering for Linux is terrible. Just look at Intellij IDEA in ubuntu for example.

It's a wonderful editor but I can't use it since it is almost not readable.

jebblue|11 years ago

>> The font rendering for Linux is terrible.

Ubuntu fonts are great, which Linux are you talking about and is this recent as in the last 5 years experience or is it qualified non-sense on your part?

>> Just look at Intellij IDEA in ubuntu for example.

I have, I'm not impressed overall though on Ubuntu the fonts are fine. I stick with Eclipse because SWT was and is a brilliant idea, the widgets don't just look native, they _are_ native.

That bears repeating, with SWT, the widgets don't just look native, they _ARE_ native.

noir_lord|11 years ago

This is a real problem one thing worth trying is Terminus at 16/12pt it's a pixel perfect font created as a TTF so requires no aliasing etc.

Completely solved the issue for me.