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

"Putrycz, Erik" <Erik.Putrycz@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> さんは書きました:

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...

"Sans" is just an alias which expands to the first font in the "sans-serif" prefer list in /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf which is installed *and* supports the language of your current locale. I quote this list here: <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Arial</family> <family>Albany AMT</family> <family>Verdana</family> <family>DejaVu Sans</family> <family>Liberation Sans</family> <family>SUSE Sans</family> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family> <family>Nimbus Sans L</family> <family>Luxi Sans</family> <family>Mukti Narrow</family> <family>Nachlieli CLM</family> <family>Helvetica</family> <family>Khmer OS System</family> <family>Lohit Punjabi</family> <family>Pothana2000</family> <family>TSCu_Paranar</family> <family>BPG Glaho</family> <family>Terafik</family> <family>FreeSans</family> <family>Meiryo</family> <family>MS PGothic</family> <family>MS Gothic</family> <family>HGPGothicB</family> <family>HGGothicB</family> <family>IPAPGothic</family> <family>IPAGothic</family> <family>Sazanami Gothic</family> <family>Kochi Gothic</family> <family>CMEXSong</family> <family>FZSongTi</family> <family>AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni</family> <family>FZMingTiB</family> <family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family> <family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family> <family>UnDotum</family> <family>Baekmuk Gulim</family> <family>Baekmuk Dotum</family> </prefer> </alias> I.e. "sans" might expand to "DejaVu Sans" if your locale is en_US.UTF-8 and you have neither the agfa-fonts nor the Microsoft webfonts installed. If your locale is ja_JP.UTF-8 however, it will expand by default to IPAPGothic because this is usually the first font in the list which supports Japanese and is installed by default when Japanese support is selected during the installation. To get reasonable defaults for all languages, one should not use specific font names as the default in the Gnome/KDE/... whatever setup but stay with these aliases. To change the defaults, the above preference list should be tweaked. If you prefer the fonts from the freefont package, you can make these the default for the "serif", "sans-serif", and "monospace" aliases by adding the following rules to your ~/.fonts.conf file: <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>FreeSerif</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>FreeSans</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>FreeMono</family> </prefer> </alias> The ~/.fonts.conf is read *before* /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf. For the "prefer" lists this has the effect the the prefer lists from ~/.fonts.conf are added to the *top* of the prefer lists from /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf, i.e. the user specified fonts are preferred. To check what a specific alias expands to for a certain language, use fc-match: mfabian@magellan:~$ locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_TIME="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_NAME="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_ALL= mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-match sans ipagp.ttf: "IPAPGothic" "Regular" mfabian@magellan:~$ LANG=km_KH.UTF-8 fc-match sans KhmerOS_sys.ttf: "Khmer OS System" "Regular" mfabian@magellan:~$ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 fc-match sans arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal" mfabian@magellan:~$ By the way, I think the "DejaVu" fonts render much better then the "freefont" fonts, the "DejaVu" font project is also a lot more active in further developing the fonts. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 I � Unicode --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org