He there,

just installed 4.6 ... and I have to say: this thing is really great. Somewhat annoying that the plasma shell is crashing every time I logout ... but well, will be fixed at some point i guess.

But there is one thing that makes it so hard for me to give up on gnome/ubuntu and stay with kde/kubuntu: under gnome, things just look "a bit" better. I created two screenshots; but it seems that this forum doesnt support to attach files to a posting; too bad.

Anyway; what I noticed is that the fonts using gnome are a bit "thicker";
so everything in KDE looks a little bit more "angled" or "flimsy".

I started using (k)ubuntu with 8.10 or so; and I think it was far worse back then; now one has to look really close to spot these subtle differences; nonetheless they are there.

Probably this is a stupid first user question ... but why is it that way?
And is there a chance at some point that KDE "looks" 100% like gnome
(font wise) at some point in the future? Or is that something I can
configure?

thanks for your patience

btw - i am running ubuntu 10.10 and fetched kde 4.6 from the backport ppa.

Image attachments are indeed disabled on this forum, but you can embed most of the imagebin services out there, just use the img tag.

I would need the screenshots, but are you sure you are using the same fonts?

Also, do you use the same DPI settings? What are your anti-aliasing settings?

I haven't read through the whole thread, but you can probably find some information about font rendering in KDE and Gnome here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.general/15660

i actually think the complete opposite. i hate most gnome fonts. though the new ubuntu font that i saw a post about did look pretty nice, but i havent actually used it. i feel like kde fonts just look sharper for the most part

Uploaded two snapshots here:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bawue42

Hope that works for you folks.

To answer your questions ... I am not exactly sure.
You see, I install ubuntu ... things look nice. I install
KDE, things looks slightly not so nice.

But I will check out the provided link ...

besides I noticed: after installing KDE, the fonts within firefox look quite bad too.

Anyway: the major problem for me right now is the fact that the KDE plasma shell is crashing when I log out / exit. That is more annoying than somewhat ugly fonts.

EDIT: the later one is resolved. I removed my "desktop folder view" once again; added a new one ... no more crashes.

Anyway: the major problem for me right now is the fact that the KDE plasma shell is crashing when I log out / exit. That is more annoying than somewhat ugly fonts.

I don't think KDE has these probelms. I am using 3 different distros and 3 different version of KDE SC(4.6 on openSUSE , 4.5 on Chakra , 4.4 on Mandriva). But it seems that KDE never crash on these distros.
I am not an expert at these problems , may be you should ignore what I said above.

SamiZhan wrote:I don't think KDE has these probelms.

As mentioned before: after removing the "desktop folder" view from my desktop the crashes stopped. Adding a the same widget afterwards again worked fine.