On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > makes them look quite ugly when compared to OS X. What I suggest here > is to 1) revert the auto-DPI-detect/change to 11-pt font in Gutsy - > things look much better in Feisty with the settngs where they were 2) > investigate changing the default hinting to either autohinter or no > hinting - this, while a little blurry, seems to look eons better than > the "native" hinter. > On this point I'm wondering if this may be caused by CompositeByDefault, since running XGL on my laptop (non-free ATI drivers, no aiglx for me :( ) causes the font rendering to change and ends up with much larger fonts than regular Xorg. This happens regardless of whether a compositing window manager is being run or not. Perhaps an accelerated X server is the reason Gutsy fonts look bigger and uglier for you than Feisty? (I haven't changed the font preferences from the Ubuntu defaults)
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