Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by weberc2 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:07AM
(#19747171)
Why does electron have broken text rendering? Surely the Chrome browser’s tendering does a good job? Or do you mean something like “it doesn’t match system defaults”?
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Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by tpush on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:11AM
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Visual Studio Code on macOS right now has broken font rendering, since it uses Skia via Electron instead of macOS' native font rendering.
It's fixed in upstream Electron but until a fixed version is integrated into VSCode I have to live with (months of) broken font rendering.
It even makes me want to use Xcode somewhat. For all its flaws, its font rendering is just the system (working) one, and scrolling in Xcode is actually smooth 60fps instead of the laggy mess that is VSCode.
Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by badsectoracula on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:28AM
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Not matching system settings (not just defaults, but the setting, i set the settings for a reason) is broken!
Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by blattimwind on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:12AM
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This. It's a bug to use a different text renderer than the system, because it will never look the same and with text this is very noticeable and irritating even to some people. You do _not_ want your core visual to be irritating.