Re: [SLE] Font aliasing

Quoting John Lamb : It's a shame the Linux community can't get the font handling to be better. Out of ten corporate Windows users that we discuss Linux migration with, eight will complain about the fonts (KDE/Gnome/XD2). I realize they may be having unrealistic expectations, but they are there and they need to be addressed. I have never seen a Linux system with as crisp and sharp fonts as a Windows equivalent (yes, I use SuSE Linux at work, every day, every week, every year :-) -Joaquim

Antialiasing is a technique whereby the pixels on the edge of a curve are given a shade intermediate between foreground and background. So, if a letter O is drawn antialiased black on white, the curved edges will have pixels in various shades of grey. If it works well, you get a letter O that looks more realistic. It requires quite a bit more processing to draw letters and is more useful if you have a large or low resolution monitor monitor screen.

Your application is probably a Gtk app that uses pango. Check /usr/share/doc/pango for more information. SuSE 9.0 probably uses both pango and xft2.

KDE has a feature for turning font antialiasing on and off in the control center and I think it's now on by default. I don't know whether this makes any difference to Gtk apps.