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Anti-Aliased Fonts For GNOME

Posted by timothy on from the smoothing-the-edges dept.

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!!"

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  1. Taking care of all the trolls early by big.ears · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    No need to post any of the following comments, as I will take care of them for you:

    "Big deal. KDE has had AA since ..."

    "So what? OS X has had AA since ..."

    "This is news? Windows has had AA since ..."

    Unfortunately, I still don't have AA fonts, because I'm running debian and the alianized .deb I created didn't appear to do anything.

  2. That time of the month eh? by trikyguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone sounds bitter. Was it really worth the time required to post this? I guess you trying your hand at crude humor with the goatsex line.

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  3. Here are some nice KDE screenshots with AA by Khalid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html

    I hope Gnome will catch up soon.

  4. Re:How about Clippy? by _N0EL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean Gnclippy?

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  5. Re:This is great! by be-fan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not really. Win2K has an ass-load of features, but it runs great on my PII-300 /w 256MB of RAM. I think its just that MS is willing to make some concessions in idealized architecture for the sake of performance. COM, for example, isn't as well suited as CORBA for remote interfacing. That's why DCOM was hacked in. However, most uses of objects is local, so COM makes a lot more sense. GNOME CORBA architecture might be more "pure" but MS's performs better for 99% of people's uses.

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