From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12963 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Oct 2003 13:22:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24893 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2003 13:22:33 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:22:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310091121.05738.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1065704982.3824.5.camel@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <1065704982.3824.5.camel@rivendell> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310091522.32227.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research X-Archives-Salt: dbec85ec-cea8-4491-b97e-3336cc6dd3af X-Archives-Hash: a63fbc525cb9fdc92a96fc7eea69eca2 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:09, foser wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:21, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > I have one thing we might opt to research (after we have the project > > procedures done). We might want to look into making good-looking fonts > > available standardly. > > This is already being worked on, but we're waiting for some improvements > in the xfree/fontconfig area to make this happen. It just isn't powerful > enough at the moment. If that is the only way then we might come to the conclusion that the best= =20 solution is to wait. I do think though that at least good documentation mig= ht=20 be another solution. > Anyway, this suggestion is very western centered, if you mess with > defaults you might easily end up with weird results for non-western > users. > I did not mean to be western-centered. I was suggesting that we look into=20 improving the fonts. I don't want non-western fonts to be looking worse=20 because of it. Actually did you try sometime to run konsole with=20 LC_CTYPE=3D"zh_CN", it is really ugly, and it should be possible to fix thi= s. > You should install exactly the same fonts to have the same effect and > thats also a question of installing windows fonts or not. KDE just has > bad font defaults, helvetica everywhere is just a bad choice. Current > fontconfig setups should solve most of these problems afaik. > I agree that helvetica is a bad choice, but we might look into making=20 helvetica look not too bad at least in some cases > afaik OO uses its own (outdated?) freetype etc. Do from source ebuilds > have these problems too ? They could use the system libs and settings. I always use from source openoffice. I don't perceive any font problems. In= =20 the from-source version we do indeed use the latest freetype. Paul =2D --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hWEYbKx5DBjWFdsRArjrAJ9Yfp4Fga+v8r6jwuaI1HVpy6ihowCfasRm mYSeEXxv0sQQK6OGOhthVqg=3D =3DUGqQ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list