Since both things (moving plasmoids and making the panel smaller) have worked for me for quite some time, there must be something wrong locally. I'm suspecting either a botched upgrade (meaning you think you're running 4.1 final, but actually still use rc1), or the distribution packages are broken (I am using OpenSUSE 11 myself), or some old configuration issues are plaguing you. To test the latter, you can move the.kde4 directory to kde4.back, logout and login to test with the default values and see whether these problems persist.
There is no font "sans" -- it's a generic placeholder that will be substituted by whatever font the distribution thinks is a nice sans-serif font.
In any case, anyone who is able to discern any difference between the font rendering in Gnome and the font rendering in KDE is deluded -- both desktops use _exactly_ the same font rendering technology. If you don't like the default options, you can set your preferred kind of anti-aliasing, hinting and font size.
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Since both things (moving plasmoids and making the panel smaller) have worked for me for quite some time, there must be something wrong locally. I'm suspecting either a botched upgrade (meaning you think you're running 4.1 final, but actually still use rc1), or the distribution packages are broken (I am using OpenSUSE 11 myself), or some old configuration issues are plaguing you. To test the latter, you can move the .kde4 directory to kde4.back, logout and login to test with the default values and see whether these problems persist.
Fortunately, KDE3 is not dead, but will be maintained for a long time to come.
There is no font "sans" -- it's a generic placeholder that will be substituted by whatever font the distribution thinks is a nice sans-serif font.
In any case, anyone who is able to discern any difference between the font rendering in Gnome and the font rendering in KDE is deluded -- both desktops use _exactly_ the same font rendering technology. If you don't like the default options, you can set your preferred kind of anti-aliasing, hinting and font size.