I share the same feelings. It took me *days* to figure out how to configure fontconfig when I was forced to switch over. Before I figured out that things could be tweaked (and how to tweak them), I was actually complaining that fonts had become much uglier than before. Of course, now I'm ok with fontconfig... :-) But on a Debian system there is the extra variable of defoma too: good for prepackaged fonts, but a real hassle for self- installed fonts. On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:25:57PM -0500, cga wrote: > > What I meant was that the extra features provided by fontconfig (aa.. > auto-hinting..) add more variables to the text rendering equation and it > has now become almost impossible to tweak fonts w/o access to an > interactive tool such as the one provided by the gnome & kde desktops. > It's no longer just a matter of installing a decent screen font and > editing a few files to specify the font, font size & fontstyle to > GTK/KDE apps like it w/ older releases of XFree. Naturally if you > already know which /etc/fonts/local.conf settings are optimal for your > display entering the xml is trivial. But the point I'm arguing is that > for someone who does not want/need the features provided by fontconfig > it makes matters a lot more difficult - especially if you are not a > gnome/KDE user.
