Does anybody know if there is a way to enable anti-aliasing and make the Amarok applets display the right font I set in System Settings?

Currently every other interface element of Amarok adheres to the font I set in the System Settings (DejaVu Sans Condensed), but the "Current track info" applet for example still gives me the ugly, crude font shown on the screenshot below.



The playlist is showing the correct font. Is there any way (a config file, for example) to manipulate the font and anti-aliasing for applets in Amarok?

Those fonts are anti-aliased, using sub-pixel rendering.

I have noticed that KDE4 (Qt 4?) applications have different font rendering than in KDE3. Even though you can set the hinting style to Slight (hintslight) and Medium (hintmedium) in System Settings, it will automatically force it to Full (hintfull). This "chews" the fonts, and make larger fonts look much uglier than if not. Setting it to None (hintnone) fixes this problem, but makes the fonts look really fuzzy, even more than on a Mac.

I think that this bug only affects fonts when sub-pixel rendering is enabled; try disabling it and see what happens.

You're right about the anti-aliasing. Its just that I'm so accustomed to the way the DejaVu is rendered nearly every other font look a bit ****.

So the remaining issue is changing the font of the Amarok applets.

So the remaining issue is changing the font of the Amarok applets.

Hell yeah.