bad fonts since OS upgrade

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, synaptical wrote:

> FWIW, i discovered that in gnome the fonts are set to use greyscale 
> antialiasing instead of rgb, and that seems to be the difference. if 
> you have gnome installed (or gconf), you can open $gconf-editor, and 
> drill down to font_rendering in /desktop/gnome and see the options (or 
> check  the xml file in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering). when i 
> change antialiasing to rgb, the fonts change to the spindly xfce4 
> fonts, and changing to greyscale changes them back to the nice-looking 
> gnome fonts.
[snip]

that's interesting... looking at the XSETTINGS registry 
(http://freedesktop.org/Standards/XSettingsRegistry), there doesn't seem 
to be a standard way to set grayscale antialiasing.  are you sure this 
is something different from rgb?  in that gconf key you mentioned 
(/desktop/gnome/font_rendering), i see that there's also an "rgb_order" 
property.  it would be really useful to know what the 
gnome-settings-daemon actually does when you select grayscale.

	-brian