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voidmain:
Wow, yours doesn't look half bad. Is that the stock RedHat 8.0 install of KDE? No customizations? Wonder why my fonts looked so screwed up? They were *perfect* in the downloaded, non-redhat version of KDE. Very strange... unless maybe it picked up some of my old fonts on other partitions like RH73, Windows98/2K but I am pretty sure it doesn't add font directories from outside the install area automatically, in fact I am positive it doesn't (I think).    

Go to the forum index and take another screen shot, I want to see that one. I think that's where it really looks messed up.

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Master of Reality:
i changed the font to Times and change the medium font size to 12.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
i changed the font to Times and change the medium font size to 12.
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That's weird, I started Konqueror from within Gnome and looked at the "Appearance" settings from within the Konqueror Web Browser preferences and Times isn't even one of the fonts listed. Maybe that has something to do with it. I will have to log in to KDE and see if it is missing there. Did you install the Times TTF from your Windows partition or was it already there?

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Nope, just logged in to KDE and Times is nowhere to be found. That's probably the difference. I did  at one time install my Windows fonts which would have included Times but that caused all of my other fonts to look crappy so I took them back out. What changes if any did you do to get Times?
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I assume you used your Windows Times TTF fonts so I created a ~/.fonts directory and copied my /c/windows/fonts/times* to that directory. The Times fonts then showed up in my list but even after selecting Times in Konqueror and setting the size to 10 it looks like complete crap. It didn't used to be this way in the stock KDE 3.x. Oh well, I'm sticking with Gnome/BlueCurve for a little while longer. They both are very good.
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[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

slave:

quote: posted by void main:
Now I have a question. Everything seems to have gotten so GUI in RH8. I used to use KDE and it was easy to right click on a desktop shortcut ICON and view/change the properties. It seems in Gnome/BlueCurve I can not do this. It's no problem because I can go into ~/.gnome-desktop and "vim" them. There has to be a nice graphical way to do this doesn't there? What am I missing? I didn't see it anywhere in the Getting Started guide so I assume the ability does not exist.
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Nope, you're not missing anything.  GNOME 2 lacks some features.  It will kick ass by version 2.2 however!

As for KDE fonts, well, I don't use KDE so I don't know.  I mean who would use KDE with a GNOME-based distribution?  Use SUSE or Gentoo if you want KDE.  Or simply install the stock KDE RPMs and not Red Hat's.

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
to make life easier, Suse include a font installer.  Does Redhat have something like this?  Personally i love verdana so i had to have it and not everything uses it excpet mozilla which just wants to be anti social by rendering the fonts really really small.

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