Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (271 mails)

["Anders Johansson" <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl said:
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> On Thursday, 03 October 2002 11:04, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
>> So, I've spent this morning with my SuSE 8 CDs and
>> YaST, and YOU and...   The upshot is that X and KDE 3
>> are new again, and now not only OOo but all the other
>> apps are accessing the fonts.  Even the window dressing
>> looks better -- or maybe I'm in a better mood.   :-)
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> Afraid it will happen again.
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> Problem seems to be in the way K =represents= the fonts.  They exist,
> and  contain the information, but K's extraction and display of that
> information  is busted.  It seems to parse one font and build a cache
> using only its  metrics for all the fonts.

OpenOffice doesn't use either qt or kde.

Since I'm not experiencing this problem even though I have the MS fonts
installed (thanks Ben) I can't actually test this, but I'd be interested
to know if the problem remains if one uses a different window manager, say
logging out and starting up gnome or Afterstep instead.

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> I would have tried Xfs a long time ago, but it does not antialias.

hm. I must be mistaken then. I was under the impression that Xfs for a
long time was the *only* thing that handled antialiasing.

//Anders