Hi!
Can anybody tell me, why openSuse (13.1 in my case) does not install the package »fontconfig-infinality« by default? After installing and configuring
sudo bash /usr/bin/infinality-ctl.sh setstyle
– I choose linux as style --, then log out and in again, letters are displayed a lot better. I really was flabbergasted how much the display was improved.
So: why isn’t this included in default installation?
cookie170 wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> Can anybody tell me, why openSuse (13.1 in my case) does not install the
> package »fontconfig-infinality« by default? After installing and
> configuring
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo bash /usr/bin/infinality-ctl.sh setstyle
> --------------------
>
>
> – I choose linux as style --, then log out and in again, letters are
> displayed a lot better. I really was flabbergasted how much the display
> was improved.
>
> So: why isn’t this included in default installation?
>
>
you might need to raise a feature request to bring it to the attention
of the developers.your forums login will work there.
you might optionally post back the url so that people can vote for your
feature.
https://features.opensuse.org/
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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
So I used your procedure and it worked. The font is smaller and clearer, but I am unsure what can now be done with the normal font setup. The read-me file seems to include a lot of manual things to do and no gui.
The read me is here:
/usr/share/doc/packages/fontconfig-infinality
Binary/script run files:
/usr/bin/infinality-ctl
/usr/bin/infinality-ctl.sh
Each Binary/script has a --help, but its only three lines. Both have a man page, but under openSUSE 13.1, the formatting is all messed up. I would say it was not installed in openSUSE 13.1 because it is not really ready for prime time and more of a work in progress if you don’t mind tinkering with it. Just my opinion of course.
Thank You,
So how can font rendering be improved in 13.1. It really is not good.
My fonts in 13.1 using KDE look great, maybe I am less demanding. 
Doesn’t it mess up your fonts in Libre Office? All the menu bar fonts go oversize for me
I activated anti-aliiasing and set a dpi. Here is the KDE font setup:
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/17820336
Here is what office looks like:
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/87832532
How does this compair to yours?
Thank You,
That is what I saw on another website.
I have not opened Libre Office until now but mine looks like yours, not very nice imho.
Using James force dpi setting they look a little better but still not as good as could be.
The infinality package works and Libre office seems ok.
Weird, I just installed it and ran the command in your #1 post, logout and in, and I have no change at all.
Great, Now this made all my fonts look like garbage. >:(
I have already removed the fontconfig-infinality package changes everything back to original and rebooted and everything is smaller, thinner and grainy.
Is there a way to recover back to what I had 15 minutes ago?? What could have changed?
Sorry it didn’t work for you. I had the direct opposite effect. My fonts look more polished (like Ubuntu - but not quite), which is what Opensuse 13.1 was supposed to be. Careful, the Global Moderator will get upset that you aren’t giving enough detail about your system and issues at hand.
I’m much more use to the Ubuntu world in which folks are happy to give a helping hand to a newbie.
No need to take offense. I have it turned on and I agree it looks better. I still stand by my thoughts that it is not polished enough to come turned on, but we don’t make that decision, the developers do that. I for one appreciate you showing this to us. Everyone is free to use it and to and an opinion on how well it works. So thank you for your technical help. 
Thank You,
No thank you for being so good about it. I was a little taken back by some comments on another thread. Opensuse has much potential and look forward to exploring it. I need a new challenge!
I just gave you a reputation bump to show my appreciation. Now I expect that you will indeed find a new project and share it with us. Consider that no matter how good something is you share, there will be those it does not work for and in general people that you can’t make happy. Do the best you can and ignore the rest. I ask that you look at my blog pointer in my signature as an example of things I feel are helpful for our users. There are many ways to share anything you come up with. Thank You and good luck with your ideas.
Thank You,
No thank you. I just had a chance to look at your blog and I look forward to reading it.
My fonts are now back to looking awesome, I have done nothing new that I know. Maybe there was some update or another, I actually have no idea what could have happened but everything looks good again.
Sorry for the frivolous post I found it a surprising development.
I too use it and LO looks fine to me, I have KDE set to use the system settings for AA and infinality enabled. The only issue I had with infinality was that for some reason it could not make use of libfreetype6 until I downgraded it to v2.4 (13.1 seems to come with v2.5 by default).
Also, isn’t it not included for legal reasons?
Here’s a screenshot with a some different fonts. Looks great to me.
http://oi42.tinypic.com/10r0kcp.jpg
I know you already removed it and all but I had the same issue and it turned out that if I used libfreetype6 from the infinality opensuse repo instead of the one from the 13.1 repo I could make it look nice (they are different versions of libfreetype6).