It does not happen in every site, but it happens often enough to be
annoying. Whose fault is this? Firefox’s or some botched picture
rendering in Suse?
I think it’s a zoom function of Firefox 3.
Firefox 2, when you used zoom function
made only text bigger, while Firefox 3
zooms pictures too, just like Opera.
I prefer picture to be in scale 1:1,
so I use ‘No squint’ extension.
It allows you to adjust text and full zoom independently.
Try it too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592
Done that, didn’t help. It’s Suse. Suse doesn’t have much regard for
fonts. They looked awful in 11.0 and I’ve read that they still suck in
KDE 4 (I’m using 3.5).
The thing is that Firefox “uses” GTK libraries to “draw” the windows,
styles, theme and fonts; while Konqueror uses Qt to do so.
When KDE launches some GTK app, it uses its GTK engine to render it,
instead of Qt native engine. That’s why gnome native appz looks weird
under KDE. So, there’s no solution to the thinner fonts, until Gnome &
KDE developers joints efforts to do a better GUI.
The fonts are too thin in QT too. Fonts suck in Suse. They are perfect
in Slackware. I’ve been told by Suse users that fonts used to be very
nice in Suse 10.3 and became ugly in 11.
With the MS fonts
> $ fc-match serif
> times.ttf: “Times New Roman” “Normal”
> $ fc-match sans-serif
> arial.ttf: “Arial” “Normal”
> $ fc-match mono
> andalemo.ttf: “Andale Mono” “Normal”
and setting /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config:BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL to 18 I
have the fonts exactly like I want them.
