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Bug #465: Stars in Growl bezel are two different sizes

Kind bug
Product Synergy
When
Status closed
Reporter Elaine Wilson
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Description

One of the fixes in the 3.0 changelog is that the stars in the floater appear correctly now. But the Growl bezel hasn't been fixed. It shows "on" stars at a small size, full white (opaque), and "off" stars at the larger size, outlined, the way the floater was in the previous version.

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  1. Greg Hurrell

    (In reply to comment #0)

    One of the fixes in the 3.0 changelog is that the stars in the floater appear correctly now. But the Growl bezel hasn't been fixed.

    That's correct. No changes were made to the Growl code in this release.

    It shows "on" stars at a small size, full white (opaque), and "off" stars at the larger size, outlined, the way the floater was in the previous version.

    I am not really sure how I could fix this: it may be something that the Growl developers have to address. The problem is that Growl notifications are plain text only and Synergy has no control over what fonts are used. The star size discrepancy problem is a font problem, introduce when Apple made changes in Tiger to the fonts that ship with Mac OS X.

    The workaround used in Synergy (for the Floater and the feedback bezels) is to specifically pick fonts for each type of star (lit and unlit) that workaround the font discrepancies. Unfortunately this type of workaround isn't possible in the Growl notifications because Synergy has no control over the fonts that Growl uses.

    About the only workaround that occurs to me is to omit the unlit stars entirely from Growl notifications. Until the Growl developers implement a workaround (which frankly seems pretty unlikely) that's about all I can come up with... marking as ASSIGNED.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    (In reply to comment #1)

    About the only workaround that occurs to me is to omit the unlit stars entirely from Growl notifications. Until the Growl developers implement a workaround (which frankly seems pretty unlikely) that's about all I can come up with... marking as ASSIGNED.

    Sigh, scratch that last comment. I just looked at the code and I already am omitting unlit stars. Marking as WORKSFORME/CLOSED seeing as the actual behaviour does not match the description:

    'It shows "on" stars at a small size, full white (opaque), and "off" stars at the larger size, outlined, the way the floater was in the previous version.'

    What it actually does is, on Tiger only, show "on" stars as larger, outline-only stars. It does not display "off" stars.

    Feel free to re-open this report if you have anything else to add.

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