Re: Bug# 266478 - any development?
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:02:13PM +0100, Steffen Hein wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 November 2004 17:59, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > Wrong workaround. You cannot solve a problem by using the wrong setting in
> > other modules, which in turn are automatic in most "modern" cases:
>
> I don't have modern hardware ;-)
>
> It's a "wrong" workaround - accepted. The problem is, that the standard
> X-Fonts are bitmap-fonts which are designed for a fixed resolution, which is
> different from Debian's default resolution. I don't know if this is going to
> be fixed or worked around in any way but the fact is that it looks absolutely
> ugly. And while you can easily adjust KDE fonts (and gtk via
> gtk-theme-switch/2 - but not many people know that), you still have the
> problem that fonts in apps like OpenOffice, Audacity (partly) or even Mozilla
> look like crap and can't be adjusted that easily. "Linux fonts look ugly" is
> a common prejudice and I don't think Debian needs to support this by shipping
> with an ugly default configuration. Setting the X-Res to 75dpi is the wrong
> fix but it's the best one that I'm aware of at the moment (from a users
> view). Fixing the root of the problem would be, of course, the better way.
Install fontconfig and some truetype fonts, most X apps can use those
now instead of the default XFonts, including Gnome, KDE, and Mozilla. I
don't use OpenOffice so can't comment about it.
Chris
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