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Old 24-Dec-2008, 07:28
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Default Re: Ugly fonts

i must admit that fonts in OpenSuSe are among the worst in any distro I have come across. I am not an Ubuntu fan but their font rendering is just plain awesome, like mickeysofts. Fedora also (in gnome) does a halfway decent job and on Arch I just install the ubuntu freetype patches to make it look good.

Wish there were patches like these for OpenSuse since obviously it cannot be solved by selecting different types of fonts and anti-aliassing and hinting only does so much I have seen.

I also think that KDE4 especially suffers from plain ugly fonts, this goes beyond a SuSe problem imho.

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