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

[dalibor topic]

Hi Jan,

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dalibor topic

On 04.03.2015 06:52, Victor D'yakov wrote:
> Added 2d-dev
>
> On 04.03.2015 5:08, Jan Vissers wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On blogs.oracle.com <http://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/)
>> <https://code.google.com/p/tuxjdk/%29> - 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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