I've installed openSUSE 11.2 w. GNOME to give it a try. I enabled fonts "Subpixel smoothing" and set it to "slight" in Appearance applet. This gave me quite nice system, documents and application fonts.
Everything looks fine except Firefox.
Firefox application fonts are ugly. And they do not change no matter what my system settings/fonts are.
Firefox page rendering fonts are even worse. Changing fonts in Firefox preferences from default to any other available (including MS) fonts does not provide any significant improvement.
I post it just in case somebody else would be interested in a solution I found. I came across this http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/gnome-linux-firefox- smooth-fonts article. See the bottom part of it advising creation of .fonts.conf file in your home directory. I created the file just copying content from the article. Except that I changed the "rgba" part setting from "none" to "rgb". This way the file just exactly reflects my setting in Appearance apllet. And now guess... The system fonts (no surprise here) are the same nice looking fonts. But Firefox now picks up my system font settings and behaves like a good puppy. The funniest thing is that the article is about Ubuntu problem which I never experienced in Ubuntu. But it did solved the problem with FF in openSUSE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org