Good fonts on RH 7.3 (was: [ale] RH Upgrade)

Josh Freeman josh at catea.org
Tue May 6 12:25:29 EDT 2003


I've got mixed feelings about Bluecurve. I like the way the interface
looks, I especially LOVE the fonts. OpenOffice is readable, finally.
However, whoever removed the "Configure Panel" and "Run Command" buttons
from RH 9's KDE implementation, however, needs to be mercilessly flogged
with a clue bat and have his L33t 4aXor credentials revoked.

Given all that, I'm thinking about blowing away my RH 9 box and
rebuilding it with 7.3 and getting the good antialiased fonts. Would
compiling the latest KDE sources do that? What other packages, if any,
would I need?

Thanks,

Josh

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 11:58, John Wells wrote:
> aaron said:
> > I haven't explored RH9 personally, but the bits I've read suggest that
> > it  continues down the same [sorry] GUI path as 8.0. I think all the
> > shortcomings  stem from the RH effort to crunch Gnome and KDE into a
> > clone minded, locked  down "Trade Mark" look and feel conglomeration.
> 
> Good for furthering widespread acceptance of Linux in the desktop
> market...bad for those 133t linux hax0rs that require everything to be
> designed *there* way.
> 
> I personally like Bluecurve and its attempt to consolidate the desktop,
> but that's my opinion.  Still, if people really wish to see Linux compete
> with M$ on the desktop, efforts like Bluecurve are necessary and a little
> bit past due.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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