Description:

When started in a KDE environment, all text labels (buttons, menus, dialogs, ...) display a non-antialiased font. This cannot be fixed by any of jedit's own options, but by using one of the JVMs options (cf. proposed fix below).


Additional info:
* Package version: jedit-5.1.0-2
* Java JRE: jre7-openjdk 7.u45_2.4.3-1
* Desktop Environment: KDE 4.11, 4.12


Steps to reproduce:
Launch jedit by either /usr/bin/jedit or /usr/bin/jeditbg or /usr/share/applications/jedit.desktop


Proposed Fix:
--- jedit.orig 2014-01-04 10:15:55.915136467 +0100
+++ jedit 2014-01-04 10:15:39.729010743 +0100
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
# Set jvm heap initial and maximum sizes (in megabytes).
JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE=192

-exec java -Xmx${JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE}M -jar "/usr/share/java/jedit/jedit.jar" "$@"
+exec java -Xmx${JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE}M -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -jar "/usr/share/java/jedit/jedit.jar" "$@"


Note:
* Not sure whether the /usr/bin/jedit script is provided by upstream or by the Arch package itself. If it is provided by upstream, maybe passing this bug to upstream would be the suitable way forward
* The proposed solution does not seem to have a negative impact on any DE other than KDE (tested on Gnome 3 and Cinnamon)
* The proposed solution also makes it obsolete to alter the view.antiAlias option in Jedit's property file