edgy fuzzy fonts bad

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/31/06, golfer <golfbuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't like the fonts in edgy, compared to dapper.  They are too
> fuzzy.  In all applications, and all fonts, even the ttf I installed
> from my M$ partition.  It's a 10 on the yuck factor!
>
> It's particularly objectionable in konsole, with dejavu sans mono at
> 10 px.  It's very difficult to read.  I'm still downloading and
> installing, so can't try anything in gnome yet.
>
> I have an LCD with the nvidia-glx driver.
>
> Everything is cool in dapper, so I know it's an edgy problem.
>
> This is enough of a problem to make me stay with dapper.  I hope it
> can be fixed, but so far, I don't see any postings here or in the
> forums.
>
> Anyone else having this problem, or can help?

I can't help much, except by saying that I find Edgy fonts gorgeous,
surpasing the rendering engine of Vista and Mac OS X, IMHO. I'm
attaching an screenshot of my Edgy system running AIGLX and Beryl with
a Vista look'n'feel.
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