Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kde
OK, this is one of the weirdest issues I had with Ubuntu. I'm not sure where to put it, I though I'd place it in "kde" and see if anyone can suggest a better spot. Bear with me: I use Ubuntu Feisty (all repositories including multiverse; I installed Dapper and updated from there), with the Gnome interface, on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. (I'll fill in with more details if asked.) The only KDE thing I use is Amarok (well, Qt, anyway). My problems all started when I noticed that the fonts in Amarok got rendered uglier than those in the other applications. As far as I can tell, they were (and still are) rendered with anti-aliasing (grayscale, I think) without hinting. (I had fonts set-up to my taste, using the default Gnome applet, when I installed Ubuntu, with full hinting and sub-pixel AA. It worked just right in both Gnome apps and Amarok.) I don't know what triggered the change, it was probably an update of some Qt thing. I didn't notice this right away, so I'm not sure. I tried looking for info on the forums -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=336229 -- because I'm not really familiar with KDE. A few guys tried to help me by suggesting I install kcontrol and use it to change KDE's font settings. (That's what I wanted to do, I just didn't know the name of the package.) For some reason, the kcontrol window did not display any actual settings pages. I tried installing kde-core, kdebase, and finally the whole kde package. After any number of restarts/logins, I still didn't find any controls in kcontrol. I also tried qt3-qtconfig, but it only allows picking fonts, not the rendering options. Any idea what I can do? I'm really only interested about fixing the font rendering, but if I can help with tracing the kcontrol problem (and it doesn't involve reinstalling the entire OS), I'm willing to try. ** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Brian Murray Status: Needs Info -- kde settings mess-up https://launchpad.net/bugs/80444 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
