On 2008/06/12 13:58 (GMT-0400) Putrycz, Erik apparently typed:
I have to say one nice change would be to change the default "Sans" font to something nicer... "FreeSans" renders way better with the font smoothing. The "sans" font is functional but IMO a little ugly...
Picking "best" font is like picking best distro or most beautiful woman or best steak. Opinions differ, and depend on environment among other things. You can change entries in ~/.fonts.conf and/or /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf to change your own "best". In the latter file, you can move FreeSans from its current list position to above the Arial line to cause "Sans" on your system to be FreeSans. "Sans" is nothing but a fontconfig alias. Look at the screenshots and testcases in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396183 & https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393748 & you can see some of the variations in font appearance among the available fonts themselves. You should be able to use those testcases to decide which font is actually displayed as "Sans" on your system. One man's prize is another's poison. My favorites all result from using the autohinter with antialiasing, while I have no appreciation from results from using the supposedly preferable byte code interpreter. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foudation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org