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Originally Posted by oldcpu
My nominal fonts on 11.1, KDE-3.5.10
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well to be honest I think those fonts actually look rather bad, just like mine.
At first I thought it was just me but due to this thread I installed ubuntu 8.10 on my spare pc just to check the difference and I must admit that it is insane how much better the ubuntu fonts look.
Admittedly fonts are personal and Kubuntu is actually rather crappy in the KDE department so I used a gnome ubuntu versus a KDE4 opensuse so some might be due to the fact that for some reason KDE4 does something horrible to fonts (imho the better looking fonts are all on Gnome-centric distros) but it was nearly enough to make me *cough* keep ubuntu on that pc *cough* (the dark theme is also actually rather nice by the way).
and it must be something ubuntu is doing right because when I load the freetype-ubuntu stuff from AUR on Archlinux I get the same crispy fonts in ARch as opposed to the vanilla packages.
stefan