Re: RH 8.0 font system

2002-10-14 Thread Jacò Botha
> > So my question should probably be rephrased to "Why does KDE use a different > > rendering mechanism under VNC than under video?". > > > > My guess is that the old code to fall back to core X fonts when the > Xrender extension is missing is still in there. But this code is no > longer required,

Re: RH 8.0 font system

2002-10-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
Jacò Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question should probably be rephrased to "Why does KDE use a different > rendering mechanism under VNC than under video?". > My guess is that the old code to fall back to core X fonts when the Xrender extension is missing is still in there. But thi

Re: RH 8.0 font system

2002-10-12 Thread Jacò Botha
> > Specifically I am trying to find out why the fonts appear so radically > > different in Gnome (horrible) and KDE (beautiful) for all combinations of > > anti-aliasing. > > > > Maybe post some small screenshots of a word or two of text (using a > fresh user account with no options changed, ideal

Re: RH 8.0 font system

2002-10-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Jacò Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Specifically I am trying to find out why the fonts appear so radically > different in Gnome (horrible) and KDE (beautiful) for all combinations of > anti-aliasing. > Maybe post some small screenshots of a word or two of text (using a fresh user account

RH 8.0 font system

2002-10-11 Thread Jacò Botha
Does anyone know if there is some documentation somewhere that explains the font system (i.e. xfs, Xft, fontconfig, etc) in 8.0? I looked on the documentation CD and did not find anything interesting. Specifically I am trying to find out why the fonts appear so radically different in Gnome (horri