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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:05:08 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: Beta2: Nice job!
Message-ID:  <4309DB94.5090805@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050822140150.GB27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com>
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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


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
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