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mattydee
June 14th, 2008, 07:20 PM
Why do java apps look so crappy in KDE? I guess font tastes are subjective, but I find the KDE one terrible and hard on the eyes.

KDE:
http://www.sfu.ca/~mda5/java-kde.png



Gnome:
http://www.sfu.ca/~mda5/java-gnome.png

Big difference.
mattydee
June 15th, 2008, 06:04 PM
Same with Frostwire
mattydee
June 17th, 2008, 08:21 PM
Three times a lady!!!
Zorael
June 17th, 2008, 11:35 PM
Font settings? Antialiasing, subpixel rendering, default fonts? Those fonts in your KDE pic look bitmapped to me.
mattydee
June 19th, 2008, 02:20 AM
Font AA and SPH are on in KDE.

What are bitmapped fonts?
dngpng
July 4th, 2008, 01:22 AM
But still it seems in Gnome it is not native font like in other GTK apps. I'm wondering if it is an issue with JDK/Swing? And if there is a way to make Netbeans' font rendering look as good as OpenOffice/Eclipse ...