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On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:09, foser wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:21, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > I have one thing we might opt to research (after we have the project |
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> > procedures done). We might want to look into making good-looking fonts |
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> > available standardly. |
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> This is already being worked on, but we're waiting for some improvements |
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> in the xfree/fontconfig area to make this happen. It just isn't powerful |
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> enough at the moment. |
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If that is the only way then we might come to the conclusion that the best |
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solution is to wait. I do think though that at least good documentation might |
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be another solution. |
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> Anyway, this suggestion is very western centered, if you mess with |
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> defaults you might easily end up with weird results for non-western |
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> users. |
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I did not mean to be western-centered. I was suggesting that we look into |
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improving the fonts. I don't want non-western fonts to be looking worse |
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because of it. Actually did you try sometime to run konsole with |
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LC_CTYPE="zh_CN", it is really ugly, and it should be possible to fix this. |
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> You should install exactly the same fonts to have the same effect and |
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> thats also a question of installing windows fonts or not. KDE just has |
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> bad font defaults, helvetica everywhere is just a bad choice. Current |
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> fontconfig setups should solve most of these problems afaik. |
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I agree that helvetica is a bad choice, but we might look into making |
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helvetica look not too bad at least in some cases |
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> afaik OO uses its own (outdated?) freetype etc. Do from source ebuilds |
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> have these problems too ? They could use the system libs and settings. |
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I always use from source openoffice. I don't perceive any font problems. In |
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the from-source version we do indeed use the latest freetype. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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