Bad looking fonts on Fedora 7 and latest KDE Branch 3.5

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jun 4 21:20:23 BST 2007


Steven P. Ulrick wrote:

>> fwiw, fedora's kde packaging does have quite a few distro-specific
>> patches applied, but I'm pretty sure they aren't much different
>> between fc6 and f7.
>> 
>> If you ever discover the cause of your font maladies, let me know if
>> there's anything we can do to help on the fedora-packaging side of
>> things...

> That question is, "These distro-specific patches
> that you refer to, can I assume that they were applied to what is now
> Fedora 7, and therefore if these patches are my problem, that would be
> why I saw this problem immediately after switching to Fedora 7?"

Possibly, who knows?  My point was that since the patches for fc6 and f7 are
similar/identical, and that you said you did *not* see problems with fc6,
I'd venture that likelyhood to be small.

> While at work today, I was contemplating taking this question to the
> Fedora users list.  If, after reading my other findings when I release
> them, you think I should take this to fedora-devel, let me know and I
> will be glad to oblige.

Sure, couldn't hurt.  More eyes the better.

-- Rex

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