after emerging the new xfree 4.3.0-r1 i noticed that my fonts.conf got overwritten. i remembered that i had indeed copied a fonts.conf from a redhat configuration. however i also noticed that the default fonts.conf has worse font rendering especially in mozilla/galeon. could someone confirm that the attached fonts.conf is indeed giving them better results ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use defaults font.conf 2. check results in galeon/mozilla 3. use supplied fonts.conf 4. check results
Created attachment 9514 [details] fonts.conf from mozilla redhat configuration
i'm some sort of font freak, so i'm going to take a look here =) seth
this isn't an issue with fonts.conf, its an issue with the fonts we actually have installed.... right now i'm running the gentoo fonts.conf and i have fonts just like in redhat....what they have that we don't are the URW-Fonts package. it provides free/gpl'd postscript fonts that are dead sexy. redhat appears to be on the top of their game with this one, so i suggest we simply rpm2targz their src.rpm and build it like they do... i suggest installing the fonts into /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1...becuase its not a standard collection of X fonts, i believe that is also already in the xfs path, but i'm not sure... you have no idea the difference installing these fonts makes =)
Where do they install it, curiosity sake? The path you suggest should be ok. Cant we just upload the .tar.bz2 to ibiblio ? It should minimise the need to keep updating SRC_URI ...
Actually, have a look here: http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html With the fonts here: http://www.gimp.org/urw-fonts.tar.gz
i did, the redhat src.rpm is actually more up to date, with better hinting... thats like the 'first edition'...there is already a 2.0 somewhere seth
emerge x11-misc/urw-fonts i checked em in, all you have to do is emerge it and things should look kickass by default...might have to change the /etc/x11/fs/config if you use xfs, or add that file to your XF86Config not sure, anyway, pretty nice stuff seth
Thanks Seth, I guess we can close this now.
