[Bug 345617] New: no (easy?) way to change system font hinting setting
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 Summary: no (easy?) way to change system font hinting setting Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: sndirsch@novell.com ReportedBy: jdluhos@novell.com QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- I have not found any way to change the default font hinting used by openSUSE. It can be easily overriden for a specific user - there are GUI tools for it, e.g. in KDE - but there is no appropriate tool for setting the system-wide default setting (not even in the YaST config file editor). The only way to achieve this is manually adding /etc/fonts/local.conf with desired settings. This is occassionally needed because OpenOffice seems not to honor the per-user setting, and changing the system default is the only way to change its hinting (the default hinting unfortunately looks ugly on some LCDs). :-( -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|sndirsch@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Component|X.Org |X11 Applications QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |mfabian@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c1 Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mmeeks@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-02-18 10:22:50 MST --- I think OpenOffice ignores the hinting settings anyway and forces its own settings. Or has this been fixed in the mean time? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User mmeeks@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c2 --- Comment #2 from Michael Meeks <mmeeks@novell.com> 2008-02-28 08:30:38 MST --- right; until changing the hinting settings has no effect on the metrics, there is no way we can have different document layout based on random per-desktop settings in OO.o; sorry. Wrt. making the chrome match, with different hinting settings for those - that is a more tricky OO.o internal problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c3 --- Comment #3 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-02-28 09:59:15 MST --- Thank you for confirming the OO.o case. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c4 Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jdluhos@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-02-28 10:09:08 MST --- Even if it doesn’t help for OO.o, it could still be useful to be able to edit systemwide settings for example with the YaST sysconfig editor. It would be rather straightforward to add some new variables to /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config for the most important hinting related settings. But I am currently hesitating to do this, I’m not sure how useful this would really be as it is rather easy to set this up with the GUI tools in KDE or Gnome. And we are trying to set reasonable system wide defaults in /etc/fonts anyway. If a sysadmin edits this to different defaults, he will have just as much a hard time to guess the wishes of “the average user” as we have with our default settings. In the end probably each user has to decide for himself which settings he prefers. Do you really think some variables in /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config would be helpful? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User jdluhos@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c5 Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|jdluhos@novell.com | --- Comment #5 from Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos@novell.com> 2008-04-03 07:58:16 MST --- This is a difficult question. The config files in /etc/fonts allow to set up the behavior of the font renderer with great precision, but they are quite difficult to understand and finding a documentation for them is not easy. But adding more variables to /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config is not a good way to go; this would mean duplication of information and more confusion. I think the best solution would be to have a YaST module for editing the /etc/fonts configuration, but that's not easy to do. Maybe we should create a Fate entry for the YaST module. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QAContact|sndirsch@novell.com |qa@suse.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|mfabian@novell.com |hvogel@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617 User hvogel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345617#c6 Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FEATURE --- Comment #6 from Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel@novell.com> 2009-03-05 09:54:39 MST --- Please do so. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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