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From: Corbin <corbinbird@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:49:30
Message-Id: 571AC690.8040004@charter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts by "Holger Hoffstätte"
1 On 04/22/2016 07:33 PM, Holger Hoffst�tte wrote:
2 > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:38:00 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >
4 >> I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts
5 >> became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped
6 >> the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but got the
7 >> same issue.
8 >
9 > It has nothing to do with the configuration of Thunderbird; the reason is
10 > simply that TB 45 was ported to use GTK3.
11 >
12 >> Anyone else with the same problem? I searched a lot, but I didn't find
13 >> any reports for this, let alone a fix.
14 >
15 > Same. I expected something like that and pkgbuilt a package of the previous
16 > version, which I then downgraded to. Other GTK3 apps like xfce-powermanager
17 > or pavucontrol have exactly the same fonts like the rest of my desktop (XFCE).
18 >
19 > -h
20 >
21 >
22
23 Palemoon ( Firefox fork ) switched to GTK3 in version 26.0 from GTK2.
24 The rendering of web pages was slightly-to-moderately effected. ( XFCE )
25
26 Cured the problem by updating changing USE flags to "gtk gtk3" from "gtk
27 gtk2".
28 The next emerge update triggered a lot of new installs and recompiles.
29
30 Hope this helps.

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