Unix GUI rendering

Does anyone know why Fonts and most Graphics in KDE and Gnome are rendered rather badly. There are some text editors in KDE where the font is just horrible as far as legible.

Any links or knowledge on this topic would be grealy appreciated.

A Huge Unix/Linux Fan

Gregg

What OS and version? Which editors?

I have never seen the problem but then again, it's RedHat running on a SUN workstation.

See the Font De-Uglification Howto: XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO