Nick Boyce writes:
> I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with > anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks > pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in > some parts of some windows. > For instance, the font used for the words "Did you know ?" in the > "Tip Of The Day" dialogs offered by both Konsole and Kate is *awful* > - it looks a mess ... utterly uneven and broken. > I've put a screen-capture of the Kate Tip-Of-The-Day dialog on my > website, at http://www.glimmer.demon.co.uk/kde/kate-lousy-font.png > if anyone feels like having a look. > Can anyone hazard a possible explanation for this ? Does anyone > else see anything better looking in this dialog on their own > machines ? If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE packages, I'd be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone have any idea how to fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the "linux" and "unicode" fonts don't work, selecting a custom font brings up very few fonts to choose from etc. ), please share it. cheers domi