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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    KDefault font
From:       Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach () wp ! pl>
Date:       2004-05-09 15:06:02
Message-ID: 200405091706.02638.mikmach () wp ! pl
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Hello,

Sometimes I can hear voices GNOME has better support for fonts than KDE.

We all know this is not true because both DE are using the same 
underlying technology. But there is some truth in it.

1. Kerning in Qt isn't perfect. KDE has little to do here. Qt4 promises 
   some improvements here.

2. Default font (helvetica) is horrible. It should be changed. Alas, 
   personally have no idea.


Second problem with font are numbers.
Open Kate with empty file and just keep Enter. Note _whole_ status line 
is redrawing to accomodate to various widths of numbers. There are few 
solutions:

1. The hardest - developers should be careful and put every changing 
   number (like in Kate) in not flexible 'cell'.

2. Find or modify one of existing fonts to make all numbers width equal 
   (like TeX's Computer Modern).

2a. Use special class for displaying some numbers - it will break
   numbers for cells and display them as fixed-width (with most fonts it 
   will probably look as broken kerning though).

m.


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