Hi,

I've recently installed KDE on OSX in order to use Kile for latex editing. However, it turns out that the font is not very readable, presumably because anti-aliasing is used. Compared the native OSX text edit, the font in Kile looks not very nice and I find it not pleasant to work with.

After some investigation it I figured out that this applies to all KDE apps. So, my question is, where would I be able to configure the use of anti-aliasing for KDE text edits?

Any help/hints would be appreciated.

If you have System Settings installed, open it > Application Appearance > Fonts. Ensure "Use anti-aliasing" is set how you require it to be.

Otherwise, try to run "kcmshell4 fonts"

Cheers for your reply.

I've tried to locate the system settings, but it doesn't seem to be installed. At the moment I have installed kde4-kile and everything that comes with that, and kdeutils4.

I could not figure out which package from macports contains the system settings, could you let me know?

It is likely a KDE Workspace package - which Macports may or may not make available. It is probably best to proceed with the kcmshell4 method in that case. If you get a "Command not found" or similar error - then try browsing in the console window to where KDE 4's binary directory is, then running it like so "./kcmshell4 <args>"

There appears to be no kcmshell4 in the macports/bin folder. However, there is an app with this name installed in the Applications. Running this with the 'font' parameter gives the following error:

Could not find module 'fonts'. See kcmshell4 --list for the full list of modules.

It seems the fonts are not installed? Or at least cannot be configured like this. Any idea in which macport package (if any) they might be?

Cheers!

Follow up: it seems the font options are installed through kdebase4-workspace, like you mentioned. However, there appears no such macport available. kdebase4 itself is installed through kde4-baseapps, which I already have. However, this does not seem to provide the workspace part...

Okay, it seems that you won't be able to change this setting short of creating your own custom Macport. One thing you may want to try is checking the Qt Configuration utility as it may offer a similar option.