Bug 149642 – [Gtk] Irregular font kerning

• Component: Text
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Tony Houghton]

Created attachment 262101 [details]
Shows irregular kerning on youtube settings page

I'm using the GNOME browser (formerly known as epiphany) with webkit2gtk 2.10.0 on Debian Linux on a Macbook 13" Retina. I've applied the patch from bug #141782, but now on many pages the font kerning looks wrong, with irregular spacing between characters. I found bug #109955, but I think this is a different issue because of the different OS etc, and the custom CSS suggested there made no difference. I suspect this is another problem with accelerated rendering. Could it be anything to do with bug #146194?

[Tony Houghton]

Created attachment 274594 [details]
Another example of terrible font spacing in GNOME "Web"

This bug is still a problem in Debian with GNOME "Web" using libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 version 2.10.8-1. You can see how ugly it is. Please can somebody look into it.

[Tony Houghton]

Strangely DevHelp doesn't appear to have this problem, despite using the same webkit-gtk package. But I think it's probably due to them using different options, and one of those options is bugged in webkit, rather than the bug being something caused specifically by Web.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think either of those websites are using the complex font layout path, so there would not be any kerning at all. Hence I guess this is bug #167557. Please complain if you disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167557 ***

[Michael Catanzaro]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think either of those websites are using the
> complex font layout path

(Based on the fact that I can't reproduce bug #161493 on those pages.)