[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#580622: chromium-browser: Subpixel hinting makes fonts blurry

[Mike Hommey]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.29~r46008-1
Severity: normal

Chromium apparently does follow the gnome antialiasing settings, but it
somehow uses stronger antialiasing.

With subpixel hinting, the result is definitely blurry and painful to
look at.

Attached here is the same text rendered by chromium (on the right side)
and firefox/iceweasel, with, obviously, what is supposed to be the same
font configuration.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-ins 5.0.375.29~r46008-1 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2           1.0.22-2            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.30.0-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.5-4             high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                2.10.2-7            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2            1.8.10-4            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.24-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.86-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2       1.4.13-stable-1     An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1            2.0.1-7             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-2.1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.3.11-1            FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1              1:4.5-20100404-1    GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4          2.28.1-3            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.24.1-1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.20.1-1            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62            6b-16.1             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d          4.8.4-1             NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d           3.12.6-2            Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.28.0-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.43-1            PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6           4.5-20100404-1      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6             2:1.3.3-3           X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6             2:1.1.1-3           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2              2.7.7.dfsg-2        GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.5-2           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.26-3            XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.0-2           X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  lzma                 4.43-14             Compression method of 7z format in
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3    compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn  chromium-browser-l10n         <none>     (no description available)

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