Dave Plater composed on 2016-11-29 09:12 (UTC+0200):
I think my choice of subject for this thread was a little over the top, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I am of the opinion that the fonts that firefox and opera have in common are not displayed properly. The page in the link that Felix supplied looks normal to me. I wanted to
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html
update from 42.1 to 42.2 but I had many errors so I went for the new install instead. When I have time I will create a new user to see if the problem is carried over and I will also look through /etc for relevant differences. I shall report back when I have found the problem and possibly file a bug if needed. The ugly fonts are in gmail and openSUSE build service, I can live with them for now.
The following pages employ the following CSS rules: https://build.opensuse.org/ https://en.opensuse.org/ font: 1em "Lucida Grande", Arial, "DejaVu Sans", Verdana, sans-serif; https://www.opensuse.org/ font-family: 'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif; (Someone probably should file a bug to sync the font family specifications among the above URIs. The latter is the newer, obviously to conform to "the collective choice of the contributors" according to Richard's up-thread response. cf. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=951898) Excepting the generic name sans-serif last in the lists, of the font family names in the first rule above, only DejaVu Sans is installed in a default openSUSE 42.1 installation, and, DejaVu Sans is the standard family that sans-serif aliases to in 42.1. So, as long as optional fonts are not installed on the base system or in $HOME, DejaVu Sans is what will be seen on those first two URIs. Test with 'fc-match sans-serif'. In contrast in a default 42.2, 'fc-match sans-serif' will result in Roboto, so that's what the latter of the above three URI's would provide as the sans-serif fallback, except that it won't happen, because a default 42.2 install also includes Source Sans Pro, an apparent companion to Roboto as a "collective choice of the contributors". Thus, as long as (non-default) fonts (in those lists) are not installed, FF will be showing you DejaVu Sans, while 42.2 will be showing you Source Sans Pro. https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox employs this font family rule: font-family: arial,sans-serif; So on Gmail you'll be seeing the difference between the two different sans-serif aliases as with the above openSUSE pages. To easily compare the difference between DejaVu Sans and Source Sans Pro (over/under), open the following: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-sourcepro.html#various If your carryover of your old user to 42.2 included optionally installed fonts, they might be in one or more of at least three locations, depending on how you "installed", among them: ~/.fonts/ ~/.config/fonts/ /usr/local/share/fonts/ If that's the case, you could still make a direct comparison of stock 42.1 vs. stock 42.2, without disrupting your fonts system generally, by renaming those locations temporarily. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org