http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6229
Summary: KDE subpixel hinting disrupts fonts appearance
irrevocably.
Product: kdebase
Version: 3.1.3-9mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: kdebase
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) do fresh install of mandrake 9.2. Select kde.
2) set the luxi sans font in the kde control center (you can skip this point but
it makes the problem more apparent).
3) now fonts look very good.
4) in the kde control center, turn on subpixel hinting. The fonts become ugly:
they are smudged. (just look at the "e" or "w" letters to see what I mean). They
are also thinner. This ugliness also affects gnome, so I presume kde is doing
something nasty to fontconfig.
5) Since I don't like it, I try to revert to the previous looks, by turning
subpixel hinting off again. But the fonts remain thin and ugly. There is no way
to revert to the beautiful fonts of default mandrake. This is a bug IMO.
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