Weblog entry #50 for ajt
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Yesterday I allowed Etch to run a large KDE upgrade on my box. Now all GNOME apps (Firefox, Inscape etc) look ugly as hell - the font rendering is dreadful. KDE apps are as beautiful as ever. If I run GNOME apps under Fluxbox, they return to their normal passable and KDE like appearance. I suppose that's why I run testing, to test these things. Interestigly Mozilla Thunderbird still looks pretty!
I'll have a look on BTS and see if anything has been reported.
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Someone on my LUG noticed the same behaviour. He manually reset his fonts in KDE, and then GNOME apps started to behave again. I did the same - even though my fonts were okay in KDE, and likewise GNOME apps are now okay.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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-- Axel
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I think it then regenerates the font rules on the fly and if there was something stupid lurking that you couldn't see but caused a problem it should get fixed.
For font issues have a look at:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Font-HOWTO/
Which has some useful tips and advice.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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