Matthias: yes, you are right - my recent screenshots show KDE's kcontrol. Though, I wanted to show that the Xavier's suggestio "... try "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config", use autohinting, and compare again..." causes the fonts to get unacceptable for KDE. I forgot to mention - switching from native to autohinting and turning on subpixel rendering (via dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config) did not make a difference for OO either...
Why should I try the live cd? I made an upgrade from dapper to edgy and I strive to solve to problem of the distro installed. Thanks so far, Joerg ** Attachment added: "OO autohinting" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4935623/OO_autohinter.jpg -- [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54776 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs