Anti-Aliased Fonts For GNOME

McVeigh revels in this posting at Gnotices site which reads: "GDKFXT transparently adds anti-aliased font support to GTK+-1.2. Once you have installed it, you can run any (well, nearly any) existing GTK+ binary and see anti-aliased fonts in the GTK widgets. You don't need to recompile GTK+ or your application.'" He adds "I'm running it now -- it it looks great!!"

Comments

Re:great.

[garcia]

may I ask what the fuck you are talking about?

if you had posted w/an account I would have emailed you back instead of wasting time messaging you here.

at least my post was ontopic idiot.

Re:Fonts: main Linux hindrance

[simetra]

If I were a typical end user, I would read "rpm -Uvh kde*", scratch my head, and go back to Microsoft Solitaire.
Typical end users are not capable of entering command-line commands. They aren't capable of even knowing where/how to do this. They aren't capable of even understanding what a GUI is, how it runs on top of a real operating system, etc. As geeks, we should avoid being so arragant to think that they are capable of such things, because they aren't, and never will be. They are stupid cows that must be herded. Microsoft is currently their cowherd. "Where do you want to go today?" is a totally rhetorical question that pokes fun at the stupid cows it's addressed to. They laugh because they know you really don't have a choice where you're going.
Stupid cows, when faced with a choice of a "cowherd" with ugly fonts, versus a "cowherd" with pretty fonts, will choose the pretty.