A kind Ubuntu hacker in India has made Xft versions of emacs-snapshot packages available via apt:
http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/ The difference in fonts is like night and day. I agree with Hans. You can label this "importance wishlist"... But seriously, every time I start Emacs I have to double-check the calendar to remind myself what year it is. And it can be fixed just by rebuilding emacs-snapshot with Xft support enabled. Pretty please? -- Wishlist: Xft/Freetype support https://launchpad.net/bugs/68461 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs