Default font in KDE: Fedora 7 vs Fedora 9

Andrea mariofutire at googlemail.com
Mon May 19 19:02:29 UTC 2008


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Andrea <mariofutire <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> I have the impression that somehow the new font used for menus, buttons does
>> not look as nice as it did in Fedora 7.
> 
> In System Settings, pick Appearance, Fonts, Adjust all fonts..., check Font and 
> set it to DejaVu Sans, check Font style and set it to Regular.
> 
> I have no idea why this isn't being picked up as the default font, it's 
> supposed to. For some reason, it's defaulting to "Sans Serif" and interpreting 
> that as "Nimbus Sans L", whereas it would be expected to default to "Sans" 
> which is a FontConfig alias for "DejaVu Sans".
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

It looks better, but it's like the whole set of widgets (menu, buttons, toolbar...) looked smoother 
in F7.
I need to find a screenshot and change themes and appearances.
But maybe it's application specific and there is nothing to do.

Cheers

Andrea




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