Hi, Yes I've been changing the default font to Oxygen an all machines I have set up.
However, we should also enable font anti-aliasing and subpixel hinting (I use Medium) to make the font really shine. Cheers, Kai Uwe Am 05.03.2014 13:36 schrieb =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_K=FCgler?= <se...@kde.org>: > > Hey, > > I've been trying to change our default font to Oxygen, with some mixed > success > so far. Let me explain a bit: There's two components to this, we need to set > the default font to Oxygen, and we need to install the Oxygen font. > > Default Setting > > The easiest way to do this is to write out a kdeglobals config file if it > doesn't exist and put the font settings in there. I've looked through all the > magic that happens from startkde (kstartupconfig, kcminit), and initially > tried to use that. It doesn't really fix the problem however, since what we > need is the fonts defined in kdeglobals, which is the only thing to be picked > up by the frameworksintegration plugin. I think that's completely fine, it > even makes it quite easy to achieve a default font setting: Just writing out > a > kdeglobals file is enough -- if you have the font installed. > > Font Installation > > So I've moved the latest version of the Oxygen font into the kde-workspace > repository, and am installing it under > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/fonts/oxygen. There, it's not automatically > picked up by fontconfig, though. This means, installing it to a non-/usr > prefix will likely mean the font is never going to be found for the user. > There's a trick to fix this: fonts are picked up from XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts and > ~/.fonts/ by default on most systems. So what I'm doing now is symlining the > Oxygen font (conditionally) in one of those dirs (~/.fonts/ if XDG_DATA_HOME > isn't set). > > I don't have it fully working, but so far my progress on this. I expect to > have a fully working version shortly. > > One final remark: On my Debian system, defaulting to Oxygen makes a *huge* > difference. It seems that the default font's metrics are so utterly broken > that sizing of many elements is screwed up for the default font. Using Oxygen > makes it all look rather slick. > > Cheers, > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel