Thanks a lot for the explanation. I have a basic en_US.UTF-8 locale - I would expect most font would be compatible. The font handling is a little less obscure for me now. The locale issue probably explains why the font handling is a little sensitive. I agree about the déjà vu font, I was using the déjà vu condensed, it was looking great but then it did not work in java swing applications. I will subscribe to the opensuse gnome list to since the defaults are obviously being reconsidered for 11.1. I fully understand that fonts are like colors and each user do have a preference, but the default is IMO far from the experience with "reasonable defaults" in other OSes - my preference being to vista with their new cleartype.
By the way, I think the "DejaVu" fonts render much better then the "freefont" fonts, the "DejaVu" font project is also a lot more active in further developing the fonts.
Erik. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org