What you should do is very much a personal preference thing. Simplest at this point is to make a change in your KControl fonts panel. You might be happier trying other things first:
1-try installing liberation2-fonts and restarting 2-try installing fetchmsttfonts and restarting 3-making a copy of the actual /etc/fonts/conf.d/58-suse-post-user.conf (not the symlink) called /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-post-user.conf, rearrange the font lists to suit your taste, and restart.
Thank you! I think that solved the problem. Since I can't reboot right now, I decided to change the fonts in Kcontrol and replace everywhere "Sans Serif" with "Liberation Sans". Now I almost can't distinguish them. The only thing slightly different is anti-aliasing. I attach a screenshot. In 12.3 (left window) text seems a bit "neater" than in 11.3 (right window). I'm using for both "Hinting style: Medium". But that bothers me much less than having Dejavu (I find Dejavu really ugly, I need to say). I guess that on a new installation, I would rather tweak 57-post-user.conf since it affects not only KDE applications but also GTK based programs (firefox, acroread, gvim, gimp, etc.). Otherwise, I would have to replace everywhere "Sans Serif" with "Liberation Sans" (in Kcontrol and also in ".gtkrc-2.0-kde"). I prefer changing it globally in 57-post-user.conf. I have another question: By playing around with the window size, I lost my graphical greeting screen in Kcontrol (see second attached jpg; left: text greeting, right: graphical greeting). Is there a way to get it back? I really appreciate your help. I'm learning a lot from this mailing list. Gianluca
Any of those can redefine the aliases according to what's actually installed and the order in the lists.
If you haven't already, you might first try tweaking the anti-alias and sub-pixel hinting settings in KControl fonts.
I use a 57-post-user.conf with Droids at the top of each of the 3 lists, and leave the font family choices in KControl at their generic defaults. That way no matter which login I use, the font families used are the same. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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