The fonts and styling used in the GUIs are pretty hard to look at at the moment. Is this just something that’s still on a to-do list?
I’ve attached a screenshot, but I imagine you’re probably already aware of this.
Sorry, this may be more appropriate for the Deadline 6 Beta Discussion forum. Feel free to move as you see fit.
That’s definitely different then what we’re seeing here on Ubuntu! 
I imagine we’ll see more font issues like this as we test on other Linux systems. It’s logged as a bug, and is something we’ll try to sort out very soon.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Just wanted to confirm that this is still an issue in Beta 3.
Is it just that the font is still too big, or is it also hideous (ie: no anti-aliasing)?
We’re setting up a Fedora 16 VM right now for testing.
It still looks the same as in my original screenshot. This is on Fedora 15, but I wouldn’t anticipate a huge difference between the two (fingers crossed…)
Ah, okay. We’ll test Fedora 15 afterwards if things look OK on Fedora 16.
How does this font compare with the fonts for other applications on this system? I know the fonts were pretty big in the installer text too. We’re currently not overriding any of the default font settings used by Qt, which would lead me to believe it is falling back to system font settings.
Right now the font style is different (Gnome’s default is a sans-serif font), and scaling the font size has no effect on Deadline’s UIs. The installer font size issue is fixed, however. Basically, Deadline seems to be ignoring the font settings from the desktop environment completely. I would expect it to take its hints from the desktop, rather than… wherever it’s getting them currently.
Ultimately, KDE is the desktop we’ll care most about, and i may convert one of my VMs to use that instead, but Gnome is quite popular as well, so support should probably be there.
OK, I just installed KDE on one of my VMs, and the results are much better. Since KDE is Qt-based, this isn’t particularly surprising, but it’s actually inheriting something from the desktop environment. Font AA still isn’t there though.
I still think ensuring reasonable support for at least KDE and Gnome (if not XFCE as well) would be a good idea.
We tested on Fedora 16 today, and the fonts were fine in gnome. Currently installing KDE to test, but I expect the results to be the same.
We’re currently downloading Fedora 15, so we’ll run some tests on it soon.
Tested with Fedora 15, and it looks fine too. These were clean VM installs with no settings tweaked.
One of the developers here suggested checking to see if the fontconfig package is installed (not the fontconfig-devel, just fontconfig). Our VMs had it installed by default.
Yeah, I’ve got fontconfig installed. I haven’t yet been able to determine what set of configuration preferences Qt is pulling its font settings from though.
We are going to be looking at the possibility of shipping a font with Deadline out of the box so that it doesn’t depend on what the system has available.
Cheers,
- Ryan