Note: I wasn’t certain if this would be a better fit for here or discussion.
All the GTK4 apps have poor font rendering by default in F36. And even using this fix it is still not as good as the old subpixel rendering enabled in GNOME Tweaks. I’m on a 14" 1920*1200 display, so I’m not on some dinosaur either.
This issue makes it seem like the GNOME devs are purposefully supporting HiDPi first, which is ok, but I can bet only represents a small fraction of Fedora’s users. Perhaps I am missing something in the programming and rendering jargon, but this just seems like such a strange decision to make.
The default font rendering.
Font rendering with the above fix.
Look at 0 degrees = 0 degrees to see the most significant difference
If I am not misunderstanding, I think it would be reasonable for F36 to have this option enabled by default. I understand Fedora attempts to stay as close to upstream GNOME as possible, but this is the kind of issue, that if I were a new Fedora user, I would instantly just turn it off and go back to what I was using before. And were it to make it to a final release, it would upset many long-time users expecting a certain level of polish.
Again, I am no expert, and perhaps I am missing some considerable factor behind this decision. I also understand how much easier it is to rant about changes than actually implement them. But if someone could just help point me in the right direction for properly proposing these changes, or just explaining to me what’s going on here, that would be great.
) fix that I’m proposing be implemented by default in some way.