Why a preference? Its just a matter of selecting the font you like:

System > Preferences > System fonts

In the Font Browser you can click on "Update" and you *should* get all  
your system fonts. The problem is, that the font browser does not  
update. If you open it again, you see the fonts.

I filed an issue for 1.0/1.1:

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1562

Adrian


On Dec 8, 2009, at 19:25 , Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> It should be explained somewhere how to replace StrikeFonts for  
> FreeType.
> Or even better, a preference for that maybe be cool.
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Gary Chambers <[email protected] 
> >wrote:
>
>> Would be nice to expose the technique used in FreeType for
>> underline/strikeout... even if only stub where rendered by a  
>> StrikeFont.
>>
>> Would help a lot for other canvas types (PDF, PostScript etc.)... For
>> instance, a P{DF canvas would draw the underline using graphics
>> primitives...
>>
>> Regards, Gary
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Marcus Denker" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Dev09.12.1 does not look nice on Linux
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> but why the previous verson of pharo worked fine? there must be
>>>> something different in this new image...
>>>>
>>>
>>> It uses pre-rendered sub-pixel fonts instead of rendering the  
>>> fonts via
>>> FreeType.
>>> (Much faster, not quite as nice in details).
>>> Freetype fonts are available if needed, though. The pre-rendered  
>>> fonts
>>> just replace
>>> the 80ties=looking Squeak fonts and provide a good enough  
>>> selection for a
>>> development image.
>>>
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2009/12/8 laurent laffont <[email protected]>:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I had the same issue with exupery vm. Works with VM
>> Squeak-3.11.3.2135.
>>>>> See: http://n2.nabble.com/New-pharo-images-td4125021.html#a4125467
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/12/8 Hernan Wilkinson <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> the last version's fonts look really bad. See attached files
>>>>>> I have Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits.
>>>>>> Dev09.11.4 looks fine
>>>>>> Maybe is a preference setting?
>>>>>> Hernan
>>>>>>
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