http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6228
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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-28 09:59 -------
So it is a deliberate decision to use nonantialiased fonts?
I hope you know what you are doing... I just want to point out that
1) people who have a good sight and an LCD monitor simply hate to browse the
web without antiliasing, because of the mach-banding effect.
If you don't know what mach-banding is, then you definitely DON'T know what
you are doing. You can ask me if you are interested.
(BTW, this is why MS introduced cleartype when LCDs came out. It is explicitly
stated.)
2) It can look like a very anachronistic choice, especially for someone who
comes from windows xp.
For those reasons, I believe that nonantialiased fonts should not be the
DEFAULT.
PS: Sorry for filing it as a bug, I switched to enhancement.
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No matter what browser I use, and what fonts I use in the kde/gnome control
center, when I go to some sites I always get nonantialiased, jagged fonts. For
example the mandrake club. This is very ugly: just look at the italic fonts.
Also non italic fonts are not ok: small fonts do look well, but medium and large
fonts don't.
I would like an option in the mandrake control center to say "always use
antialiased fonts for WEB-BROWSING". (On the other hand, I still want to use the
default font in konsole, which is not antialiasing).
Debian's fontconfig prompts you with that question.
Better yet would be: "always use antialiased fonts if the font size is over XXX".
