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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. OS X by whjwhj · · Score: 1, Troll

    OS X has outstanding font rendering technology, but you don't see any /. posts about it. Somebody produces a half-ass hack for Gnome and it gets press. Typical.

  2. Re:This is great! by malelder · · Score: 0, Troll

    great feature...my fonts don't look jaggy...bfd, folks, i'd rather have programs that run on my os, then non-jaggy fonts! an os without software is just plain useless...

    "linux! sure, you can't run anything useful and/or fun, but hey, no jaggies! you don't need any special hardware, because hey, we don't do anything special!"

    fanatics...quit bothering the real world. get a job. spend some time porting over useful software, not introducing old technology and preaching about it like it's something important.

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