The perfect font and theme setup :)

[SteveRiley]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

I have ordinary Ubuntu installation in addition to kubuntu, and the fonts look much nicer in the Ubuntu installation. Both in programs generally and in Firefox. I cannot understand why.

What are your sub-pixel rendering and hinting style settings? For me, "RGB" and "Slight" look the best.

[bsniadajewski]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

No problem!

[dagring]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

I have ordinary Ubuntu installation in addition to kubuntu, and the fonts look much nicer in the Ubuntu installation. Both in programs generally and in Firefox. I cannot understand why.

What are your sub-pixel rendering and hinting style settings? For me, "RGB" and "Slight" look the best.

I changed the settings to the same you have. That did the trick. I have struggeled with this issue a long time. Thanx a lot.

Dag R

[blackpaw]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

I use KaWoken icon set that have almost all icons there is, and URW Gothic as font style.
With the Plasma theme "Seamless", it is what it's named - no borders at all, leaves more room for background image

Thanks Jonas, I finally got to time to try those out - very interesting, great example of different tastes - it all looked good, but not to my preferences - I like darker contrasts and thicker fonts/borders, so found the font a bit spidery and the theme difficult to follow but I could appreciate it was a classic setup.

Thanks for the feedback and tips.

[schnelle]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

Interesting how you have got your fonts so nicely drawn. I have tried the bitstream sans, but I think the fonts are very thin and not very well drawn on the screen.

I have ordinary Ubuntu installation in addition to kubuntu, and the fonts look much nicer in the Ubuntu installation. Both in programs generally and in Firefox. I cannot understand why.

Go to SystemSettings>Application Appearance>Fonts.

Use anti-aliancing: "enabled"

Then "configure", check "use sub-pixel rendering" "RGB" and then choose hinting style which works the best for you. Note that you have to restart applications (and system settings) to see difference in font rendering.

[abalone]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

Here's mine (with details and screenshot). I'm very happy with it. It's a tad on the GNOME Shell/Unity side of things (with the Unity-like Icon-Only Task Manager and a fair bit of zooming out to change windows/desktops). You can make KDE be many things...

http://anjtuesday.wordpress.com/2011...n-the-prairie/

[blackpaw]

Re: The perfect font and theme setup

Sweet