Re: redhat 8.0/gnome 2 antialiased fonts

> I have just installed redhat 8.0 and thumbs up, congrats a usual with
> redhat releases.
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> I hope that you don't take the following as an offense but that it will
> provide constructive criticism. It is the issue of anti aliased fonts.
> In my view and I have asked others their opinion and agreed with me that
> the aa fonts somehow don't look quite right in gnome 2.0 apps and the
> desktop.  They appear out of focus somewhat and don't make the desktop
> look any clearer to me ( Both the same affect on two machines I have
> installed.
I agree.

I tried disabling antialiasing in fontconfig (as opposed to disabling Xft 
completely) at one stage, but the results were really bad. The fonts 
seemed to be drawn at a very low resolution, if you know what I mean.

> Perhaps I am missing the point and it is the type of fonts installed but
> from what I can see, if I disable it with GDK_USE_XFT=0 (which I have
> put in my .bashrc_profile) and set the sans font size to 9 in
> preferences it looks much nicer ( to me anyway).  On top of that it
> makes pre-gnome 2 applications like galeon and evolution look more at
> home, for instance gnome terminal a gnome 2 app looks identical with the
> menus/toolbar as evolution galeon does.
> 
> Would it not have been advisable to make to whole desktop look as
> consistent as possible?   With the default settings gnome2 and gnome 1.4
> apps look too different for my liking and really makes the whole thing
> give a way the fact that it is a halfway house between gnome 1.4 and
> gnome 2.0.
Once again, I fully agree.

Didn't someone somewhere create a lib (GDK replacement?) that would add 
Xft rendering to Gtk-1 apps?

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> Here is a screen shot of what it looks like now. Notice how the desktop,
> gnome-terminal and evo have identical looking fonts and are easy to
> read.
> 
> Is there a way with aa switched on to get those nice thin looking fonts
> I have now because it seems to me that anti aliasing only seems to swell
> them up, so to speak and leaves pre gnome 2 apps alone with gnome 1.4
> looking fonts.
> 
> Alexander Borro
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