On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:26, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > I now run galeon as my main browser (which I like better > > fontwise than any quartz browser)... > > Since galeon uses gecko, wouldn't Camino > <http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/> be just as good only with a > native interface?
I have the OS X native version of Firebird. But, no. I can't look at the soft OS X fonts for more than a half an hour before my eyes hurt. With Galen (and X11), I've compiled freetype to support my hinting preferences and that leaves me with sharper (albeit a bit thinner strokes at small sizes) fonts. Freetype hinting sacrifices font shape for readability at small sizes. OS X does absolutely no hinting; they just render the font at a much larger size (pixel-wise) and scale it down. Whereas freetype does use hinting to force strokes closer to pixel boundaries, eliminating the blurriness caused by having 2 pixels of grey vs one of black (as happens when the stroke straddles the pixel boundary). It's definitely a matter of preference and the Mac guru in my office can't stand anything but the soft fonts. I find they do look good, as long as you don't have to read them for very long. Ideally when displays get better, we wouldn't need hinting at all. But for now. Another OS X pet peeve is that it's not even possible without much digging and scareware software to change the default UI font. And then when you manage to do it, you'll get artifacts in the gui as Quartz guis don't seem to be scalable and don't adjust to the font size. Don't get me wrong. OS X is a great OS and it's UI is so much superior to MS Windows that it's not even funny. But I'll always prefer linux and the X11 apps I like. Fink lets me use them on OS X, so that's good. It gives me the best of both worlds. Michael > > > Michaek > ^ kewl > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
