A bit of history: a problem [1] with Italic letters near the borders which was fixed upstream; the fix caused some problems which can be seen in [2] and was noticed when g-i switched to the 2.8.x set of libraries. Upstream version of gtk+ is currently 2.10.3, and according to Mike Emmel, upstream author of the gtk-directfb backend, it'd be non-trivial to backport the fixes to 2.18.x libraries. There are two options: 1. switch to 2.10.3 libraries the decision has to be made by the gnome team, responsable also of the udebs used with g-i. Don't know if it's going to happen before Etch is released 2. revert the patch needed to fix [1] this would involve a new upload of gtk+2.0, which should include a patch to fix the problem with horizontal/vertical lines. I tested and prepared a patch which fixes the problem (see [3]) Of course this would mean that [1] is going to appear again but it'd be not as bad as the lines problem, which affects all languages. If this problem is going to be an RC bug, at least we have a fix for it. regards, Davide [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330824 [2] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/g-i_2.8.18_display-weirdness.png [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/009_revert_gdkdrawable-directfb.patch
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