On 04/06/18 07:10, Knurpht @ openSUSE wrote:
Op zondag 3 juni 2018 23:12:01 CEST schreef Wolfgang Rosenauer:
Hi,
I'm pretty familiar with openSUSE and I can solve many issues when I install new versions.
What I will never understand is font configuration though.
Neither I do fully understand how to configure it nor the default seems sane. I've been using Leap 42.x now for its lifetime and upgraded to Leap 15.0 today just to see that some applications have very strange and ugly fonts (imagine fonts like from my the early days of PCs).
Especially this was about monospace this time and I was able to change the configuration via YaST2's new module (btw, where does it apply the configuration? I couldn't find it in /etc/fonts.)
But first I had to look up on my old installation (thank god it's still around in another partition) which font I've used for the past years. Therefore I was able to apply the same.
Still my feedback somehow is: openSUSE's default font selection is inconsistent and strange/suboptimal in every other version or I do something wrong in a subtle way.
Anyone has a useful pointer how to get nice fonts within openSUSE Leap 15.0?
Thanks, Wolfgang Which desktop are we talking about? In your 42.3 install, did you use default fonts, or self-picked ones? Which apps are suffering from the issue? GTK apps on KDE? Could it be you have some deprecated theme active?
Yeah someone went to lots of effort to make sure that by default everything is using the same default font, Roboto from memory. What has likely happened is that at some point your config for certain apps probably all using the same toolkit (ie gtk or Qt/KDE etc) was updated to use a specific font. In the upgrade from 42.3 to 15.0 that font may have been removed which is now leading the toolkit to fallback to something ugly instead. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B