Re: Antialiasing and ugly fonts
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:21:56PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:32:49PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> > The default (shipped) XftConfig should probably contain some kind of
> > specifications (after all, X11 is installed with readable fonts)...
> >
> > Should I file a bug ? (remember, it's Branden Robinson I will have
> > to deal with)...
>
> if the problem makes something unreadable for you by default, then id
> say you should file a bug.
Try to use gnome-font-properties and set your main font to Cartwright
size 12. :-)
> if it just looks bad, however, but is still readable, maybe you should
> file it as a wishlist bug.
> or even better, write a patch to XftConfig with what you think are some
> good defaults and then file a bug with that attached.
Trouble is, the X server can be installed with no fonts, and as such no
font is guaranteed to be present for sur. May be I can try to
see if multiple fallbacks can be specified. Then I will file bug+patch
with fonts from freefont, from xfonts, from free ttf packages, etc.
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