Re: Explorer-type file manager
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:54:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a
> > MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage.
>
> Have you taken a look at KDE or Gnome? KDE in sid is up to 3.1 if you
> ignore the kde metapackage and rough it manually.
Well, the goal was to not switch window managers. I wonder how hosed my
system will be if I try to get kde from sid installed in my
testing/unstable machine.
I frankly do not fully understand the difference between something like a
small window manager like IceWM or Blackbox and KDE or Gnome. When I had
KDE installed before it seemed like there was a lot of processes running.
And I remember it was a bit of work just to get Kmail installed as it had
a bunch of dependencies that, IIRC, were not solved just by apt-get
install.
> I'm also liking how easy it is to enable anti-aliasing. I now have
> sub-pixel anti-aliasing and my text is now absurdly sharp and easy to
> read.
That's cool. I spent months screwing with my fonts. I finally disabled
anti-aliasing for smaller font sizes because they looked too fuzzy to me.
I'm still not sure if that's just personal opinion, or if my config was
bad, or had sub-pixel set wrong, or bad video card or aging monitor (Sony
G500 21"), or what.
It was also a pain because my system seems to be a mix of xft and xft2 so
I was messing with both XftConfig and fonts.conf.
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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