<Swing Dev> Uptake of TUXJDK font fixes in Java 8

[Jan Vissers]

Hello,

On blogs.oracle.com there was an announcement of Java 8U40 availability. As
far as I could tell from the release notes there were no changes made to
provide better support for font rendering on *Nix systems - which is why I
asked the following question on:
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/announcing_jdk_8_update_40

<quote>

Question: where are the much needed font rendering fixes for *Nix
platforms? Without tuxjdk (https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/) - which
provides a number of patches on top of OpenJDK, my eyes would really bleed
spending a whole day coding in Netbeans/Intellij or any swing based app on
Linux.

Is there a way to get these fixes into Java SE 8?
For details on what tuxjdk is fixing check this out:
https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/w/list
</quote>

A prompt answer was given in that a best approach would be to reach out to
Swing Toolkit Group - which is what I'm now doing :-)

So again: are there plans to give us developers that use Swing based tools
(like Netbeans/Intellij) some decent font rendering on *Nix systems too?
Googling on fonts, swing and *Nix does show that there are quite a few
people suffering from 'bleeding eyes'.

Thanks,
-J.
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