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From: foser <foser@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:11:56
Message-Id: 1065704982.3824.5.camel@rivendell
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:21, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > I have one thing we might opt to research (after we have the project
3 > procedures done). We might want to look into making good-looking fonts
4 > available standardly.
5
6 This is already being worked on, but we're waiting for some improvements
7 in the xfree/fontconfig area to make this happen. It just isn't powerful
8 enough at the moment.
9
10 Anyway, this suggestion is very western centered, if you mess with
11 defaults you might easily end up with weird results for non-western
12 users.
13
14 > In a standard install esp. the helvetica and other adobe fonts are really
15 > ugly. This should not be needed. Also we could try to make sure that the
16 > fonts have exactly the same size as on windows in the browsers as there are
17 > still webdesigners that work with font size assumptions for their layout.
18
19 You should install exactly the same fonts to have the same effect and
20 thats also a question of installing windows fonts or not. KDE just has
21 bad font defaults, helvetica everywhere is just a bad choice. Current
22 fontconfig setups should solve most of these problems afaik.
23
24 > Also I read a report complaining about openoffice fonts being ugly esp. on
25 > gentoo (the only distro named). We should not just let that be, but try to
26 > improve, and also write up a good manual on how and why fonts are beautiful/
27 > ugly.
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29 afaik OO uses its own (outdated?) freetype etc. Do from source ebuilds
30 have these problems too ? They could use the system libs and settings.
31
32 - foser
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