Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 95295
disable UI for screen font antialiasing if it is disabled system-wide
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:33:34 UTC
I brought this issue up before, in person I guess, but I appear to have forgotten to actually forward it. :( If you disable font antialiasing in the system such as in the KDE system settings and then try to turn on font antialiasing in OpenOffice.org it doesn't actually work. Someone I talked to before, maybe cmc?, said that this checkbox probably shouldn't even appear under Linux, but it at least should grey out if the system has antialiasing completely disabled. Steps to reproduce: 1. Disable Anti-Aliasing for fonts in KDE via System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts 2. Enable "Screen font antialiasing" in OpenOffice Writer via Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> View
TM->HDU: please have a look, thanks !
There are different methods OOo does antialiased text rendering on X11: 1. nowadays often via cairo (which does what you noticed) 2. directly via xrender (if cairo drawing is disabled or not available) 3. a pixmap based fallback (if neither of the above are available) You are right, if the first method is available and enabled then the Tools->Options->OOo->View overrides doesn't make much sense when the cairo based rendering already has disable antialiasing. It should be grayed out then. TODO: - HDU: add a method like canAntiAliasingBeEnabled - OS: using it in the Tools->Options tabpage to gray out the redundant checkboxes
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