Re: A few comments about Knoppix 5.1 [fonts & graphics]
Le 2 Janvier 2007 16:28, Klaus Knopper a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:21:12PM -0500, gilpel@altern.org wrote:
> > Le 2 Janvier 2007 05:54, vous avez écrit :
> > > Am Montag, 01. Januar 2007 21:14 schrieb gilpel@altern.org:
> > > > This time, the background is plain ugly, which is quite
> > > > unusual.
> > >
> > > Besides the somewhat cheerless background picture I also find
> > > the fonts used for the desktop icons and the start menu not
> > > very nice.
> >
> > I haven't rebooted to check this more closely but they seemed all
> > right to me.
>
> What exactly is the problem with the fonts?
Note: This question is for Ronny Standtke <Ronny.Standtke@gmx.net>.
I wrote that the fonts seem all right to me. As you read this, it's
going to be 3 days that Distrowatch announced th enew release and
tens of tereabytes will hav ebeen downloaded from the mirrors. The
the DVDs, it goes real fast. So I wonder how the mirror
administrators will feel about having a new release to correct one
bug.
Why not write a KNOWN_ISSUES_WITH_KNOPPIX_5.1, give the temporary
solutions to the kicker, explain what's to come in a month or two and
let the people figure if they want to download now or later.
Bandwidth cost nothing to you and me, but it does cost something to
somebody.
> > As for the background, if it ever happens again that no artist is
> > available to make one, I could ask somedody at photo.net to
> > provide one. I'm sure many would be glad to contribute.
>
> Well, I guess, maybe you've had to be there to like the "rough"
> landscape...
I suppose...
> In fact I DID also get some (so far, a majority of) positive
> feedback about having an entirely "non-technical", and real,
> background picure this time.
Technical was OK to me, but non-technical would be OK too. How about
the following pictures in the right formats:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5374045
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5177295&size=lg
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5176138&size=lg
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5080026
There are really nice pictures available at photo.net. Whether the
authors will agree with the license is another matter, but I can
check.
I understand the last photo is vertical rather than horizontal, but
adding extra space is real easy in this case.
Before I finish, I would like to voice my concern about this idea of
uploading the a new release with the kicker bug fixed.
First as you've said, geek don't often don't notice because they use
the keyboard and, anyway, they'd know their way out. Newbies often
don't work with multiple desktops.
I undertand you're feeling uneasy about this bug, but what do you
want, as you explained, these things happen. OTOH, as you read this,
the 5.1 release will have been advertised on Distrowatch for 4 days.
When I tried the Kaiserlautern U. mirror on the 30th, I downloaded at
7 KB/sec. At the present time, it's 26.59 KB/sec.
A little note entitled KNOPPIX_5.1_KNOWN_ISSUES in the download
directory and sent to Distrowatch and the different Knoppix sites
would ease the things down for now. Many people would decide to wait
for the next release as they understand how to fix the kicker
problem. Otherwise, many people will decide to download the new fix
even if they haven't use multiple desktops once in their life, just
to say they have the latest and greatest.
We don't pay for all those terabytes -- with DVDs, it goes real fast!
-- but somewhere somebody pays. Maybe it's better not to provide them
a good reason to get upset.
I might be wrong, but that's how I see things now.
Regards!
GP
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