On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 13:40 +0100, lynn wrote:
On 24/11/11 13:19, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 12:39 +0100, lynn wrote:
Perhaps it does not like my 1920x1200 display, run with the current nvidia proprietary driver?
Just for the h of it, is there another theme for GTK-under-KDE that I could try to see if there is a difference.
I didn't like the fonts with the custom nvidia driver. They seem to be rendered totally differently when compared to the nouveau driver. Try removing the nvidia driver and going to nouveau and see if you like that better.
I think there may be something here. IIRC, the fonts looked better with the nouveau driver. But I am not 100% sure.
I think it's a personal taste. The nouveau fonts are simple. The nvidia fonts look too 'fussy' for my liking. The nouveau driver is also faster for me. Moving windows around on the nvidia left holes in the background where it had moved from. Also I have a very cheepo onboard nvidia chip which doesn't help.
I suspect that the nvidia driver does less with older chips, leaving more work for the CPU. My chipset is rather new. I think the nvidia driver has better performance. The ugly fonts make apps look like old X apps with far too big fonts that are bold and are simply aesthetically very out of proportion. It can take an inch to house the top menu and a tool bar. That is twice the size of how KDE apps are doing this. In evolution, the text in the list of message is so big that I cannot see reasonable length sender and subject strings. On a 1920x1200 screen. In kmail I can see what I would expect. All I want is to be able to tell these application which fonts to use!
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