Re: [opensuse-kde3] Larger fonts in openSUSE 12.3 than openSUSE 11.3

22 Nov 2013

      On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Felix Miata wrote:
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On 2013-11-22 10:29 (GMT-0800) Gianluca Interlandi composed:
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You are right, the fonts are different. But I'm puzzled. When I go to
kcontrol -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts, they are all set to "Sans Serif"
(except for "Fixed width" which is set to "monospace") in both
installations, 11.3 and 12.3. Is there another way to select fonts?
Sans Serif and monospace are aliases. In both 11.3 and 13.1 look to 
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-suse-post-user.conf to see the preferential order in 
assigning installed fonts to these aliases. I expect that Arial is installed 
on your system using the smaller fonts in your screenshot jpg, but not on the 
system using the larger fonts. Arial is higher in the list than DejaVu, so 
where it's available it is what Sans Serif aliases to. Note that "installed 
fonts" means both fonts installed in the conventional "installation" sense, 
and any fonts present in ~./fonts.
I see. I compared /etc/fonts/conf.d/58-suse-post-user.conf in both 
installations. They list the same for the first four but then they differ:

openSUSE 11.3:

                 <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>

openSUSE 12.3:

                 <family>sans-serif</family>
                 <prefer>
                         <family>Arial</family>
                         <family>Albany AMT</family>
                         <family>Verdana</family>
                         <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
                         <family>Droid Sans</family>
                         <family>Arimo</family>
                         <family>Liberation Sans</family>
                         <family>Cantarell</family>

Could it be that I'm missing some fonts in 12.3? Maybe, Arial is missing. 
Is there a way to check it?

Thanks a lot,

            Gianluca
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