Default font in KDE: Fedora 7 vs Fedora 9

[Rex Dieter]

Andrea wrote:

> 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".

> 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.

Kevin found the bug and fixed it this morning:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/pending/qt-4.3.4-14.fc9

rock!

-- Rex

-- Rex