Easier to read small text

[gboudreau]

I think subpixel-antialiased is the default, and thus unneeded. But it's hard to read small text with that.
Example: the "network throughput" text at the top of that widget.
Changing to antialiased makes it much more readable, but also changes the boldness of a lot of the fonts in the existing widgets.
Maybe you want to keep it at subpixel-antialiased in main.css, and just modify the widgets to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; just for the smaller text..?
Personally, I prefer how my widget look now that I changed it at the "top level" like this.

[gboudreau]

Before:

After:

[felixhageloh]

I also prefer antialiased over sub-pixel font smoothing. I actually even switched off sub-pixel font smoothing completely on my mac. I enabled it because for some reason WebView wasn't giving it to be by default and I though it would be what most people are used to. Changing it now would of course affect all existing widgets, but maybe it is early enough to switch to a 'saner' default .... let me sleep over it :)

[frankieshakes]

Just joining in on this after having sent a pull-request for the exact same change ;)

I agree that having the antialiased font set as the default is the way to go; but I do understand it’s a matter of preference, and everyone has their own taste.

I’m wondering what the alternative, middle-ground fix might be. Perhaps a setting somewhere (either at a per-widget level) or a Ubersicht-wide preference?

Any thoughts?

[soberstadt]

I vote for uebersicht-wide setting.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Frank Manno [email protected]
wrote:

Just joining on this after having sent a pull-request for the exact same change ;)
I agree that having the antialiased font set as the default is the way to go; but I do understand it’s a matter of preference, and everyone has their own taste.
I’m wondering what the alternative, middle-ground fix might be. Perhaps a setting somewhere (either at a per-widget level) or a Ubersicht-wide preference?

Any thoughts?

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