variable graphics quality on Mandrake
 

Hi all,

I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Compaq laptop (PIII 650/11Gb/192mbram). All OK but prior to this I did a dry run with Knoppix live CD.

I have noticed that the graphics quality of certain programs is noticeably inferior on the Mandrake distro compared to Knoppix. In particular fonts and text on file menus etc. For example file menus on KDE apps., and yet the background images on the desktop are pin sharp. Monitor is set at 1042x768 and experimenting makes no difference.

Worst of all is my favourite browser, Opera for linux, which I downloaded and installed no problem, but is utterly unuseable, fonts and text are tiny and very blurred if enlarged. Konqueror looks good in comparison.

My 11 year old daughter took one look at the KDE graphics and said yuck! prefer Windows!

Any suggestions? Previous

you could try playing with the font settings for KDE. go to kontrol center->look n feel->fonts. try different ones that might be more pleasing to the eye. Opera has it's own font settings in tools->preferences->fonts, so you might want to change those, too.

also, IMHO, Linux fonts are pretty lame & limited. if you have a Windows partition, use MCC->system->fonts, click the "import" button, "add", browse to your Windows fonts folder, "add" again, then install fonts & you'll have all the Win fonts. if you don't have a Windows partition, you can burn the Windows fotns folder to a CD & install them via the same method, but browsing to the fonts folder on the CD instead. if you do install Windows fonts, you'll need to go to kontrol center->system->font installer, click the administrator button, then click the TTF icon at top to let it rebuild the font cache for KDE. finally, reboot for all fonts to be detected & usable.

otis