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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Hans on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:11

Yes. I have the same problem. The default fonts are not antialiased. I have so switch to bitstream Vera sans to get a nice looking interface. I´m using a self compiled version from yesterdays svn.
I don´t understand why this is not default. We have 2008 I think it is time for more modern default settings.
And I don´t think this is the job of the distributions. KDE should ship a nicely preconfigured version without the need to fine tune everything by hand.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by sebas on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:16

As far as I understand it, KDE uses whatever fontconfig proposes as default sans serif font. If you don't like it, you should change it. It's not something KDE can do anything about, but your system integrator can. For most users (including me), the default is actually fine (DejaVu Sans on this system, antialiased and all).

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Bobby on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @03:32

The first thing that I always do after installing a Linux distro is change the default font. I also use Bitstream Vera Sans which I think is one of the very best fonts for the Linux DE.
I don't know why it isn't KDE's default font. Could it be a licensing problem? I notice that openSuse doesn't even install it as one of it's default fonts, one has to install it extra.
For people like me it's not a big issue but if KDE wants to appeal to normal mortals in a way that OS X does then these little things have to be taken care of.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Ben on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @05:05

Check if DejaVu is installed. DejaVu is the fork of Vera, and thus looks exactly the same for Latin, but has much wider script support, and has people working on it. Vera never got changed or fixed after it was first released.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Sutoka on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @09:54

I'm pretty sure DejaVu is the default on OpenSuSE (though its been quite a while since I've done a fresh install, so I might just be getting confused).

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Bobby on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @14:28

I think it's Sans Serif or something like that but it's definitely not DejaVu.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Stefan Majewsky on Tuesday 18/Mar/2008, @00:15

Whatever. The fonts on openSUSE's KDE always look good for me.

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by she on Wednesday 19/Mar/2008, @06:24

Who cares? Not trying to pick on you, but the point is that screenshots should look VISUALLY APPEALING to people.

Choosing ugly fonts is not a smart way to do, KDE could have an easy link inside widgets to change default fonts easily and quickly without kcontrol-navigating or similar

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Re: Still using butt ugly fonts
by Bobby on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @14:19

Thanks for the info. I really didn't know that. I just tried it and indeed it looks the same :)

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