Hi,

I use kubuntu but I tried most of other distros, even arch.

When Antialias (subpixel rendering, RGB) and Hinting are opened from font settings the fonts look still bad for all applications.

I couldn't improve font looking like as in the Gnome fonts at Ubuntu, or in M$ Windows.

Is it possible to get better font quality with KDE? Is there anything more that I could do?

Thanks

After enabling Anti-Aliasing, did you restart the applications in question?

Well of course I've been using with this settings for weeks.

Have you tried removing ~/.fonts.conf then reapplying the settings? Have you also tried changing the fonts that KDE uses?

I executed "sudo fc-cache -f -v" to renew the font cache. I guess that enough instead of deleting fonts.conf?

I tried changing the fonts KDE uses. It became worse. I put ubuntu font as default, and after I put some Windows fonts like Arial Verdana and Georgia (got them from Windows/Fonts dir of dual boot system) but those fonts couldn't handled well. Website texts became too long vertially but with normal widht horizontally. So i removed them.

I mean still some parts of characters are grayed, weak.

Please look this text carefully especially for those chars "e a o".



My fonts.conf

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>


Could you please provide a screenshot of the "bad" fonts, and a comparative "better" fonts example?
Note that GNOME should configure the same ~/.fonts.conf file as KDE does...

I can't right know. I don't have a Gnome distro installed and I don't want to compare with Windows but I'll do it when I install a Gnome distro.

Thanks.