Re: Mozilla vs. Konqueror

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

> Note that Red Hat 8 is using anti-aliased fonts, which will look
> better if you use better fonts, so you might want to steal the fonts
> off a nearby Windows box.  :-)  (TrueType fonts work fine with xfs
> these days.)

Lordy! Please don't *steal* Microsoft's valuable copyrighted work by
unauthorized copying. </sarcasm>

However, please *do* avail yourself of their generous offer to allow someone 
like http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ to make a nice installable package
that doesn't violate the Microsoft license granted with those fonts.
The fonts available there are properly licensed and free for your use in 
the form they are distributed in. Microsoft did allow them to be freely copied 
and distributed, but required that they be distributed as an intact Windows 
executable. The installer extracts the fonts and installs them into your
X fonts. The license doesn't say anything about being required to actually 
*run* the executable. And thanks to the doctrine of first sale, once you
have a licensed copy, you can do with it as you please, including feed it
to a digital "shredder" that strips away that crufty window casing.

And for Weiqi's comment on anti-aliased fonts not being available for GTK+ 1.2,
well check out http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net/

From that site:
> Gdkxft transparently adds anti-aliased font support to gtk+-1.2. 
> Once you have installed it, you can run any (well, nearly any) 
> existing gtk+ binary and see anti-aliased fonts in the gtk widgets. 
> You don't need to recompile gtk+ or your applications.

Kewl.

Mike808/


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