On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:10:20 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/12/30 18:56 (GMT) Vitorio Okio composed:
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'm not having such trouble in Ubuntu.
Googled it half a day without much result. Any suggestions, please?
"Ugly" WRT fonts is in the eye of the beholder.
I absolutely agree with this. Most of times it is very subjective. This is why the subject in essence reads: "system fonts vs. FF fonts". Thus I was actually saying: "With my current "Subpixel smoothing" settings my eyes are very comfortable with fonts system-wise but the VERY SAME eyes are NOT comfortable with Firefox fonts". I.e., while anti-aliasing works perfectly system-wise, it is completely ignored by Firefox.
If you put an over/under or side-by-side screenshot of bad with good where people can see it then people are more likely to be able to help.
Unfortunately I'm only subscribed to "nomail" version of this mailing list. I read and post using Pan. Thus I do not see a way to put screenshots.
If you try the .bz2 version of FF from the mozilla.org web site, do you see the same trouble?
I've not tried and I'm reluctant to do so. The last thing I want from a distro is to maintain such an important application on my own. If I would be willing to do so I'd rather go with either Slackware or Arch. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org