From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 14:05:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1484316A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:05:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8719243D60 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:04:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7ME4pOj014177; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:04:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4309DB94.5090805@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:05:08 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Devon H. O'Dell" References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <4309D293.8030104@centtech.com> <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050822140150.GB27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> In-Reply-To: <20050822140150.GB27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:05:01 -0000 Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:57:09AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >>Eric Anderson writes: >> > >> > Just to check the obvious, but, you are certain you are running at the >> > native resolution of the LCD panel, correct? >> >>Yep, its running at the native resolution. >> >>Drew > > > For what it's worth, I've always found the anti-aliasing of fonts in > GTK applications to be sub-par. They all use Bitstream Vera at a > ridiculously small font size and seem to blur into the background by > like two pixels on each side. I don't mind Bitstream Vera at all, > but I agree, I cannot stand the way antialiased fonts look in these > applications. Agreed - it isn't perfect at all, but better than nothing (for me, but not everyone it seems). Is there a way to change it? I have to say, that Windows fonts nearly always look great. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------