KDE appearance...

[antialias]

On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:24 pm, John Inkpen wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 01:17, Brad wrote:
> > Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windoze?
> > The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when
> > they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type
> > fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have
> > installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little
> > difference. Perhaps there is more to do after they are installed?
> >
> > I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our
> > network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff
> > see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand.
> >
> > I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most
> > of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and
> > Outlook is terrible.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get
> > them a Windows-quality display?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brad
> > Brisbane, Australia
> >
>
> G'day, As mentioned in other posts, anti-aliasing should help and you
> can select the fonts you want. As for Mandrake, stick with Redhat, you
> already have it. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
>
> Cheers
>

I don't think he is talking about KDE applications. Galeon & Evolution don't 
have support for antialiased fonts yet (probably in Gnome 2) and I dunno 
about OpenOffice. So, Brad you have to blame Gnome and not KDE for fonts 
looking terrible in Gnome applications. You can have nice fonts if you use 
Konqueror instead of Galeon, Kmail instead of Evolution and Koffice instead 
of OpenOffice.

BTW, fonts in IE, MS Office and Outlook look terrible compared to the same 
fonts I use in KDE.

Cheers,

antialias
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