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[Marcin <2092667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I'm trying to find package according to the hint from crichton. Pls comment or delete wrong assignmen(s).

** Also affects: font-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gtk4 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Lack of LCD antialiasing in GNOME in Ubuntu 24.10 (24.04 the most
  probably too) is showstopper for migration

Status in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in font-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnome-desktop package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gtk4 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hallo,

  GTK4 dropped by design / by purpose LCD antialiasing for fonts - Gnome
  devs are in fact declaring, that users should move to 4K or better
  screens (and they drop even efforts of fixing it, if I understand
  correctly).

  I tried to migrate from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.10, but it failed because
  of bad experience and eyes problems. 24.04 seems to be affected too.

  I will just add, that this type of antialiasing was with us from ca.
  2000 year (Microsoft added smth like this with the name Clear Type).

  More specific: pls look into
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue-
  antialiasing and fonts examples - 22.04 version has got
  clear/color/sharp edges and 24.x version has got gray edges.

  Questions:

  1. how to correctly address this issue? (Gnome Discourse bugs and threads are closed or ignored)
  2. If I understand correctly, Canonical is part of GNOME Foundation. Is it possible to discuss it internally?
  3. Is it possible to ask for customized Gnome for Ubuntu or have very official statement, what will be done with this? (this could be clear info for people, if they should wait for resolving it and stay with 22.04 or migrate to other distributions)

  There are more people with this problem. Below some links about fonts
  problems in new GTK (some resolved only in small part):

  https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/
  https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/mojgbv/poor_font_rendering_in_gtk4_apps/
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511954/font-rendering-issue-antialiasing
  https://discourse.gnome.org/t/solved-why-gnome-uses-grayscale-antialiasing-method-by-default/1316
  https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-and-gtk-apps-can-be-source-of-eyes-problems/25625
  https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gtk4-loss-of-functionality-no-lcd-antialiasing/25752
  https://discourse.gnome.org/t/increasing-font-weight-in-gnome-libadwaita-for-better-readability/18810
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4926
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7197
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6190
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/3393

  Please help.

  With kinds regards,
  Marcin

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