Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Ive tried dabbling with preferences, but to no avail. Have anyone here succeeded getting the same font appearance as in the picture on the website I link to? You will never get it to look exactly like Windows XP - for that you would need another copy of Windows XP. :-) But if you want it to look like Ubuntu, you would need to find out exactly which fonts Ubuntu is using, and which font rendering options, and copy those across to OpenSolaris. I've not tried copying fonts across myself, but I did try to match the font rendering options as follows (this is on OpenSolaris): 1. Right click on the desktop and choose Desktop Appearance... from the menu. 2. Click the Fonts tab. 3. Set the Rendering option to Monochrome. 4. Click the Details button. 5. Set Smoothing to Grayscale and Hinting to Slight. 6. click Close button, then Close again. You should now be back at the desktop. 7. Log out, then back in to make sure the desktop menus get redrawn with your new preferences. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Ive tried dabbling with preferences, but to no avail. Have anyone here succeeded getting the same font appearance as in the picture on the website I link to? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far better. I havent been able to mimic that look in OpenSolaris. Now I tried to install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox 2.2.4 and also Ubuntu looks better than OpenSolaris. Why is that? Does OpenSolaris have bad fonts or what is the problem? Just curious. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. System Preferences - Appearance - Fonts is what you're probably looking for. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far better. I havent been able to mimic that look in OpenSolaris. Now I tried to install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox 2.2.4 and also Ubuntu looks better than OpenSolaris. Why is that? Does OpenSolaris have bad fonts or what is the problem? Just curious. As others have mentioned, most of the algorithms used for rasterising / displaying fonts are patented and the majority of the professional quality fonts available are not freely redistributable. Some Linux distributions choose to enable patented font display methods by default or have chosen different fonts, etc. for their default display. Which looks better to different individuals is entirely subjective, so what you feel looks 'better' another person may not agree with. For now, the short answer is 'patents'. Meanwhile, I think you'll find some controls to adjust the appearance of fonts more to your liking in the preferences dialog I mentioned above. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far better. I havent been able to mimic that look in OpenSolaris. Now I tried to install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox 2.2.4 and also Ubuntu looks better than OpenSolaris. Why is that? Does OpenSolaris have bad fonts or what is the problem? Just curious. I believe I was the one who wrote that. On my computer I changed the Icon (/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/sun-start-here.png) in the main menu or what ever it's called. In windows it's called start. So, I don't remember what it's called. It can be placed in a the gnome-panel simply by: right click in the gnome-panel click Add to Panel scroll down and double click Main Menu This brings up the Main Menu where you can follow it to the configuration editor as shown above. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Or you could just type gconf-editor in the terminal :P 2009/7/9 Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far better. I havent been able to mimic that look in OpenSolaris. Now I tried to install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox 2.2.4 and also Ubuntu looks better than OpenSolaris. Why is that? Does OpenSolaris have bad fonts or what is the problem? Just curious. I believe I was the one who wrote that. On my computer I changed the Icon (/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/sun-start-here.png) in the main menu or what ever it's called. In windows it's called start. So, I don't remember what it's called. It can be placed in a the gnome-panel simply by: right click in the gnome-panel click Add to Panel scroll down and double click Main Menu This brings up the Main Menu where you can follow it to the configuration editor as shown above. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Two things: 1. As already mentioned, right click on your desktop, choose Desktop Appearance, then Fonts, then choose Subpixel Smoothing. All the detail available in the config editor are also found here if you click Details. 2. Many web pages and applications use fonts from Microsoft that have been released to the public. You can install those from the extra repository: First, you have to register with Sun here (it's free): https://pkg.sun.com/ Then download and install the certificates as described on that same page, and also follow the instructions to add the Extra repository. Be careful to follow or cut paste the commands precisely. Sun used to call it extras, but now it is called extra in the repository URL. Just cut paste and you should be fine. Then install the fonts: pfexec pkg install ttf-fonts-core They'll be available to every app, including (for example) your web browser, Acrobat, and OpenOffice. There are many fonts, including Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Comic Sans, with a total of 20 fonts. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
When I boot into WinXP the fonts have always looked better than OpenSolaris. Also, WinXP in VirtualBox running on OpenSolaris shows better looks than OpenSolaris. It looks exactly like these two boxes at the top. The box to the left looks like OpenSolaris. The box to the right looks like WinXP. I prefer the box to the right. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx Why is that? Is there some way of getting ClearType-esque technique to OpenSolaris? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?
Have you had a look at the Fonts tab in System-Preferences-Appearance? 2009/6/25 Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com When I boot into WinXP the fonts have always looked better than OpenSolaris. Also, WinXP in VirtualBox running on OpenSolaris shows better looks than OpenSolaris. It looks exactly like these two boxes at the top. The box to the left looks like OpenSolaris. The box to the right looks like WinXP. I prefer the box to the right. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx Why is that? Is there some way of getting ClearType-esque technique to OpenSolaris? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
