Oxygen as default font

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Hi,

Yes I've been changing the default font to Oxygen an all machines I have set up.

However, we should also enable font anti-aliasing and subpixel hinting (I use Medium) to make the font really shine.

Cheers,
Kai Uwe

Am 05.03.2014 13:36 schrieb =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_K=FCgler?= <sebas at kde.org>:
>
> Hey, 
>
> I've been trying to change our default font to Oxygen, with some mixed success 
> so far. Let me explain a bit: There's two components to this, we need to set 
> the default font to Oxygen, and we need to install the Oxygen font. 
>
> Default Setting 
>
> The easiest way to do this is to write out a kdeglobals config file if it 
> doesn't exist and put the font settings in there. I've looked through all the 
> magic that happens from startkde (kstartupconfig, kcminit), and initially 
> tried to use that. It doesn't really fix the problem however, since what we 
> need is the fonts defined in kdeglobals, which is the only thing to be picked 
> up by the frameworksintegration plugin. I think that's completely fine, it 
> even makes it quite easy to achieve a default font setting: Just writing out a 
> kdeglobals file is enough -- if you have the font installed. 
>
> Font Installation 
>
> So I've moved the latest version of the Oxygen font into the kde-workspace 
> repository, and am installing it under 
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/fonts/oxygen. There, it's not automatically 
> picked up by fontconfig, though. This means, installing it to a non-/usr 
> prefix will likely mean the font is never going to be found for the user. 
> There's a trick to fix this: fonts are picked up from XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts and 
> ~/.fonts/ by default on most systems. So what I'm doing now is symlining the 
> Oxygen font (conditionally) in one of those dirs (~/.fonts/ if XDG_DATA_HOME 
> isn't set). 
>
> I don't have it fully working, but so far my progress on this. I expect to 
> have a fully working version shortly. 
>
> One final remark: On my Debian system, defaulting to Oxygen makes a *huge* 
> difference. It seems that the default font's metrics are so utterly broken 
> that sizing of many elements is screwed up for the default font. Using Oxygen 
> makes it all look rather slick. 
>
> Cheers, 
> -- 
> sebas 
>
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