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It will be nice to have some option, which allows turn on font antialiasing in the NetBeans IDE.
Questions: - can you show me the improvement this change will make? Is it visible? - you are talking about option, so it means that there is probably some problem to turn antializing on in all cases. Performance? - should it be enabled or disabled by default? If disabled, I guess almost no users will ever find it (remember, regular users never uses options unless they have some problem).
1. Yes, it is visible. Especially on notebooks with high-res display. See attached screen shots. 2. Yes, it can cause performance problems on slower machines. 3. Font antialiasing should be disabled by default IMHO and should be optional. Font antialising can be enabled in variuos software products including Windows XP, Gnome desktop or IDEA IDE and it is disabled by default AFAIK. S why not to implement this feature in NetBeans IDE this way?
Created attachment 12384 [details] Font antialiasing disabled
Created attachment 12385 [details] Font antialiasing enabled
See http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4808569.html, we should be grabbing anti-aliasing defaults from the OS instead of choosing one value or the other arbitrarily.
Already works, on appropriate L&Fs. E.g. -J-Dswing.aatext=true under JDK 1.5 / Ocean L&F. I use a laptop and it looks fine; no visible performance problems. (Turning on AA in the editor, however, makes the editor unacceptably slow.) And I think on Macs (Aqua) AA is on by default.
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