Comments on: Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in Gnome http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841 Baby, you're the ginchiest. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … Ubuntu Netbook http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5744 dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … Ubuntu Netbook Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:55:32 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5744 [...] is the original: dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … By admin | category: amarok, ubuntu kde | tags: amarok, documents, gnome, kde, kimpress, [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5744','dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … Ubuntu Netbook'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5744','dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … Ubuntu Netbook','[...] is the original: dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … By admin | category: amarok, ubuntu kde | tags: amarok, documents, gnome, kde, kimpress, [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] is the original: dwasifar's daily gripe » Ubuntu: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in … By admin | category: amarok, ubuntu kde | tags: amarok, documents, gnome, kde, kimpress, [...]
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]]> By: dwasifar http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5711 dwasifar Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:00:11 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5711 <a href="#comment-5707" rel="nofollow">@dyna </a> Thanks for that information. :) I was kind of wondering why the font settings seemed to be interacting.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5711','dwasifar'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5711','dwasifar','<a href=\"#comment-5707\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dyna <\/a> \r\nThanks for that information. :) I was kind of wondering why the font settings seemed to be interacting.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @dyna
Thanks for that information. :) I was kind of wondering why the font settings seemed to be interacting.
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]]> By: dyna http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5707 dyna Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:07:35 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5707 Thanks for the info! However i found that for me just installing systemsettings did the trick. But the only KDE app i'm using is krusader and that did install some KDE libs/runtime dependencies. I can now change the krusader look without having the kdebase-workspace stuff installed. Also i found that when going into the fonts configuration in systemsettings some of my gnome fonts changed aswell, mainly in firefox. Tracked it to ~/.fonts.conf being created by systemsettings. Deleting this file after having used systemsettings fixed the fonts again in firefox while keeping the fonts settings set using systemsettings in krusader.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5707','dyna'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5707','dyna','Thanks for the info!\r\n\r\nHowever i found that for me just installing systemsettings did the trick. But the only KDE app i\'m using is krusader and that did install some KDE libs\/runtime dependencies.\r\nI can now change the krusader look without having the kdebase-workspace stuff installed.\r\n\r\nAlso i found that when going into the fonts configuration in systemsettings some of my gnome fonts changed aswell, mainly in firefox.\r\nTracked it to ~\/.fonts.conf being created by systemsettings. Deleting this file after having used systemsettings fixed the fonts again in firefox while keeping the fonts settings set using systemsettings in krusader.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for the info!

However i found that for me just installing systemsettings did the trick. But the only KDE app i’m using is krusader and that did install some KDE libs/runtime dependencies.
I can now change the krusader look without having the kdebase-workspace stuff installed.

Also i found that when going into the fonts configuration in systemsettings some of my gnome fonts changed aswell, mainly in firefox.
Tracked it to ~/.fonts.conf being created by systemsettings. Deleting this file after having used systemsettings fixed the fonts again in firefox while keeping the fonts settings set using systemsettings in krusader.

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]]> By: dwasifar http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5694 dwasifar Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:35 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5694 <a href="#comment-5693" rel="nofollow">@Scott Conklin </a> I wish I had a definite answer for you, but I don't. I installed kvpnc on two machines (one Jaunty and one Karmic) to try to reproduce your problem, and the fonts look fine on both. However, they do seem to follow their own rules; they're larger in kvpnc than they should be according to my font selections. The only thing I can suggest is to make sure you have subpixel hinting enabled. In the KDE System Settings tool, it is in Look & Feel>Appearance>Fonts. Set Use anti-aliasing to "Enabled" and Force fonts DPI to 96, then clock Configure and make sure Use sub-pixel rendering is checked and Hinting style is set to Full. There is a gnome project for this, gvpnc, but it is not in the repos and needs to be built from source if you want to use it. There is also a vpn plugin for network-manager - network-manager-vpnc - but I know nothing about it other than that it exists. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Have you tried the Ubuntu forums?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5694','dwasifar'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5694','dwasifar','<a href=\"#comment-5693\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Scott Conklin <\/a> \r\nI wish I had a definite answer for you, but I don\'t. I installed kvpnc on two machines (one Jaunty and one Karmic) to try to reproduce your problem, and the fonts look fine on both. However, they do seem to follow their own rules; they\'re larger in kvpnc than they should be according to my font selections.\r\n\r\nThe only thing I can suggest is to make sure you have subpixel hinting enabled. In the KDE System Settings tool, it is in Look & Feel>Appearance>Fonts. Set Use anti-aliasing to \"Enabled\" and Force fonts DPI to 96, then clock Configure and make sure Use sub-pixel rendering is checked and Hinting style is set to Full.\r\n\r\nThere is a gnome project for this, gvpnc, but it is not in the repos and needs to be built from source if you want to use it. There is also a vpn plugin for network-manager - network-manager-vpnc - but I know nothing about it other than that it exists. \r\n\r\nSorry I couldn\'t be more help. Have you tried the Ubuntu forums?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Scott Conklin
I wish I had a definite answer for you, but I don’t. I installed kvpnc on two machines (one Jaunty and one Karmic) to try to reproduce your problem, and the fonts look fine on both. However, they do seem to follow their own rules; they’re larger in kvpnc than they should be according to my font selections.

The only thing I can suggest is to make sure you have subpixel hinting enabled. In the KDE System Settings tool, it is in Look & Feel>Appearance>Fonts. Set Use anti-aliasing to “Enabled” and Force fonts DPI to 96, then clock Configure and make sure Use sub-pixel rendering is checked and Hinting style is set to Full.

There is a gnome project for this, gvpnc, but it is not in the repos and needs to be built from source if you want to use it. There is also a vpn plugin for network-manager – network-manager-vpnc – but I know nothing about it other than that it exists.

Sorry I couldn’t be more help. Have you tried the Ubuntu forums?

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]]> By: Scott Conklin http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5693 Scott Conklin Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:51:41 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5693 as a beginner ubuntu user, i came across your posting here and it seems to describe exacatly the problem i was having on one particalur app that was installed on my jaunty install. (kvpnc 0.9.3) I followed your directions installing the workspace and have tried playing with all the display settings using the systems tool for KDE apps, but nothing i do seems to affect the font of the applciation. the fonts looks so bad, (almost like the menu titles were hand drawn by a 5th grader), that I can hardly stand to look at the app. i have uninstalled and installed it again numerous times and I have played around with fonts.conf file endlessly, but nothing seems to help. do you have any ideas what i could be doing wrong? or how i can get this app, which i use for work, to look decent? thanks for any help/suggestions..<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5693','Scott Conklin'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5693','Scott Conklin','as a beginner ubuntu user, i came across your posting here and it seems to describe exacatly the problem i was having on one particalur app that was installed on my jaunty install. (kvpnc 0.9.3)\r\nI followed your directions installing the workspace and have tried playing with all the display settings using the systems tool for KDE apps, but nothing i do seems to affect the font of the applciation. the fonts looks so bad, (almost like the menu titles were hand drawn by a 5th grader), that I can hardly stand to look\r\nat the app. \r\ni have uninstalled and installed it again numerous times and \r\nI have played around with fonts.conf file endlessly, but nothing seems to help.\r\ndo you have any ideas what i could be doing wrong? or how i can get this app, which i use for work, to look decent? \r\nthanks for any help\/suggestions..'); return false;">Quote</a></div> as a beginner ubuntu user, i came across your posting here and it seems to describe exacatly the problem i was having on one particalur app that was installed on my jaunty install. (kvpnc 0.9.3)
I followed your directions installing the workspace and have tried playing with all the display settings using the systems tool for KDE apps, but nothing i do seems to affect the font of the applciation. the fonts looks so bad, (almost like the menu titles were hand drawn by a 5th grader), that I can hardly stand to look
at the app.
i have uninstalled and installed it again numerous times and
I have played around with fonts.conf file endlessly, but nothing seems to help.
do you have any ideas what i could be doing wrong? or how i can get this app, which i use for work, to look decent?
thanks for any help/suggestions..
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]]> By: dwasifar http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5678 dwasifar Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:24 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5678 <a href="#comment-5669" rel="nofollow">@Don Birdsall </a> Yeah, I think under Hardy (or maybe it was Intrepid) it added an insane amount of clutter. Every piece of the KDE system setting tools wound up as its own menu item. I'd just go remove all those entries, but yeah, it was a pain.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5678','dwasifar'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5678','dwasifar','<a href=\"#comment-5669\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Don Birdsall <\/a> \r\nYeah, I think under Hardy (or maybe it was Intrepid) it added an insane amount of clutter. Every piece of the KDE system setting tools wound up as its own menu item. I\'d just go remove all those entries, but yeah, it was a pain.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Don Birdsall
Yeah, I think under Hardy (or maybe it was Intrepid) it added an insane amount of clutter. Every piece of the KDE system setting tools wound up as its own menu item. I’d just go remove all those entries, but yeah, it was a pain.
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]]> By: Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in Gnome | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5672 Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in Gnome | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:10:17 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5672 [...] (and generally apt handles that for you). But getting them to look right is another story. More here Starting with Hardy, KDE4 became available in Kubuntu, and by the time of the Intrepid Ibex [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5672','Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in Gnome | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5672','Fine-tuning KDE app appearance in Gnome | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu','[...] (and generally apt handles that for you). But getting them to look right is another story. More here Starting with Hardy, KDE4 became available in Kubuntu, and by the time of the Intrepid Ibex [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] (and generally apt handles that for you). But getting them to look right is another story. More here Starting with Hardy, KDE4 became available in Kubuntu, and by the time of the Intrepid Ibex [...]
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]]> By: Don Birdsall http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841&cpage=1#comment-5669 Don Birdsall Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:48:05 +0000 http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=841#comment-5669 Good Tip! Thank You! I have delayed upgrading to Koala for a few days waiting for information just like this. At one point I did take the 'install kubuntu-desktop' approach but this added way too much clutter to my GNOME menus.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5669','Don Birdsall'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5669','Don Birdsall','Good Tip! Thank You!\r\n\r\nI have delayed upgrading to Koala for a few days waiting for information just like this. At one point I did take the \'install kubuntu-desktop\' approach but this added way too much clutter to my GNOME menus.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Good Tip! Thank You!

I have delayed upgrading to Koala for a few days waiting for information just like this. At one point I did take the ‘install kubuntu-desktop’ approach but this added way too much clutter to my GNOME menus.

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