Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 11 February 2008 08:23:06 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote:
My experience has been that the tarballs have rough edges - jagged fonts,
HUH????
The tarballs don't need any fonts..they use the fonts already installed on your system.
I just thought of something.
I wonder if Joe is thinking of an issue that was prevelant in *nix gui systems around '99/00.
IIRC, the fonts weren't anti-aliased and thus looked "ragged" when compared o Macintosh System 7 or Windows or NT. I remember Sun having some magic to their fonts but KDE on Mandrake or Red Hat looked less than desirable by comparison.
That is tangentially related to the issue - by the early part of the millennium, Linux vendors commonly shipped anti-aliased desktops, and added patches to browsers and other apps to make them play along. When I'd download the mozilla tarball to get the latest and greatest, we'd be back to jagged fonts like it was 1994 again. I understand that the folks that build the mozilla tarballs may have now discovered antialiasing, so that particular issue may be a moot point, but there are many others. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org