Better fonts in Ubuntu - full stop
Now I'm the first to admit I dont have the best eye sight in the world, but ever since i started using ubuntu and even going back to the days I was using fedora even I've noticed that the fonts in Gnome have always been "fuzzier" and looked worse then similiar sized fonts in windows XP. This has been very clear on my laptop where LCD subpixel rendering makes a difference.
Today I finally got really sick of them and despite all the posts on various blogs and forums going on about how its just peoples imaginations and fonts on Ubuntu/linux/gnoe really do look better then winXP or that its just a matter of twiddling with the Gnome font settings I just went ahead and installed 3 packages based on some recent pathces to the releavant libaries. I found the deb packages here
and thanks to this very nice person my fonts finally look decent in ubuntu (gnome). At last!
Now I just need to figure out how to make patched debs based on ubuntu's latest sources since the update manager now keeps trying to replace the versions I just installed with "newer" packages which of course don't have the patches and rtunr my destop to it former ugliness.
Today I finally got really sick of them and despite all the posts on various blogs and forums going on about how its just peoples imaginations and fonts on Ubuntu/linux/gnoe really do look better then winXP or that its just a matter of twiddling with the Gnome font settings I just went ahead and installed 3 packages based on some recent pathces to the releavant libaries. I found the deb packages here
and thanks to this very nice person my fonts finally look decent in ubuntu (gnome). At last!
Now I just need to figure out how to make patched debs based on ubuntu's latest sources since the update manager now keeps trying to replace the versions I just installed with "newer" packages which of course don't have the patches and rtunr my destop to it former ugliness.
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