Stefan Teleman wrote: > Joseph Mocker wrote: >> Stefan Teleman wrote: >>> >>> You *DO* need to configure your font appearance. >>> >>> There have been significant changes affecting font rendering >>> introduced in Nevada 127. It is very likely that you will need to >>> adjust your font settings. >> Any tips on a good procedure to follow to tweak font settings. I >> tried a few things this morning but couldn't get things so all apps >> looked acceptable. Thunderbird being the main culprit I couldn't get >> adjusted quite right. >> >> Thanks... > > Therein lies the insanity: > > Not all fonts are created equal, not all monitors/resolutions are > created equal, not all font/encodings combinations are created equal, > the same font which looks beautiful with lcd/resolution/encoding ABC > will look much worse with lcd/resolution/encoding XYZ, etc, etc, etc. > > Different fonts will look better or worse at different > autohinting/full hinting/no hinting/monitor/lcd/resolution/encoding > combinations. > > The only rational suggestion i can make is: experiment, choose the > fonts which look best. You could download TrueType free fonts from the > Internet (there are plenty of sites with very high quality > patent/licensing free TrueType fonts), and pick whichever looks best. > > "Sans" and "Serif" are not actual fonts -- they are moniker aliases > for DejaVu Sans, or FreeSans, or whatever Thunderbird configured them > to alias. > > You need to pick and choose the right fonts for Serif and Sans, namely > the fonts which look best on your particular graphical display > combination of variables. So, one problem I see is that no mater what I change the rendering to, both in the basic and advanced preferences, it doesn't seem like it makes any change in either Firefox or Thunderbird. However, when I move from say Subpixel smoothing to Best shapes, I do see the window titles change, just don't see Firefox redraw anything.
Should I be seeing everything redraw when I make a change? Same goes for Resolution, If I change it from 95 to say 72, The window titles change and Panel fonts change, but nothing else until I quit and restart the application. --joe
