Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote:
>
> > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font
> > configuration systems we have now?
>
> Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else?
I guess I'm not so much thinking of independent systems as of different
places people have to look when something's not right. XF86Config, Xft,
a font server if you run one, fontconfig for GTK2, and let's not forget
gtkrc, KDE, and X resources. If you want to be anal there are also all
those apps that use their own font configuration, like the Mozilla-based
browsers.
> My remaining GNOME 1 apps continue to work fine under GNOME 2. The bigger
> problem is that the GNOME 2 development seemingly involved dropping as
> many options/preferences as possible... :-(
I hear you there. I'm waiting for GNOME3 to further improve usability by
removing the ability to launch applications. As soon as you log in, it
should just automatically start all of the applications that the GNOME
developers think you should be running. After all, they're such experts
on how everybody should be using their desktops.
--
Michael Heironimus
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