On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 05:41 +0100, Chris Warburton wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > > > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > > makes them look quite ugly when compared to OS X. What I suggest here > > is to 1) revert the auto-DPI-detect/change to 11-pt font in Gutsy - > > things look much better in Feisty with the settngs where they were 2) > > investigate changing the default hinting to either autohinter or no > > hinting - this, while a little blurry, seems to look eons better than > > the "native" hinter. > > > On this point I'm wondering if this may be caused by CompositeByDefault, > since running XGL on my laptop (non-free ATI drivers, no aiglx for > me :( ) causes the font rendering to change and ends up with much larger > fonts than regular Xorg. This happens regardless of whether a > compositing window manager is being run or not. Perhaps an accelerated X > server is the reason Gutsy fonts look bigger and uglier for you than > Feisty? (I haven't changed the font preferences from the Ubuntu > defaults) >
This is possibly an artifact of incorrect DPI reporting by Xgl, if indeed it's only apparent under Xgl. I've got a new xgl package in the works, waiting for review [1]. Once that's hit, I'd be very interested in hearing whether you still see this behaviour - it should be easy to fix if it's still apparent. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xgl/+bug/126255
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