I am involved into the PC-BSD project that is based on FreeBSD 6. Fonts in PC-BSD have been enhanced dramatically tweaking fontconfig. The only problem is that KDE-FreeBSD has fonts already defined, it's using the Bitstream family if I'm not mistaken.
Problem is that we already define which font to use in our fonconfig XML files, and we need KDE to use generic family fonts (serif, sans-serif, monospace) so that if the user has the Microsoft fonts, all KDE applications will use them properly, and if he doesn't use Microsoft fonts, KDE applications will use free fonts (Nimbus fonts in our case). Is it possible that forthcoming versions of KDE have generic font families defined under the K Control Center instead of Bitstream fonts so that installing Microsoft fonts take effect on all KDE applications? To do so, go to the "K Menu > Settings > Appearance & Themes > Fonts" and define: General: Sans Serif 12 Fixed width: Monospace 14 Toolbar: Sans Serif 12 Menu: Sans Serif 12 Window title: Sans Serif Bold 14 Taskbar: Sans Serif 12 Desktop: Sans Serif 12 (Always use generic families this way, instead of particular fonts). As a side note, here's how PC-BSD now looks like: http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8812/opera0hx.png Thanks a lot for your tremendous work. PC-BSD wouldn't be what it is without your help porting KDE to FreeBSD. Kind regards, -- Charles A. Landemaine. _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
