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Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors
An anonymous reader writes "Project GoneME is the first attempt to try moving the GNOME Desktop into a new direction. The intention is to create a community of people, who are willing and interested to help fixing issues brought up by people for a very long time and make the vision of a usable Desktop in the means of good old Unix fashion become true. In case you are interested to help, please join the project. Plenty of people have shown interest and welcome this step and the IRC channel got filled up within a short time." Update: 07/26 02:33 GMT by T : A project mailing list has been set up for anyone interested in taking part in this endeavor.
Personally I am CLI junkie and don't want a Winodws replacement GUI. Both Gnome and KDE are too bloated. I like Enlightenment and Fluxbox but they have such poor support for decent looking fonts I tend to use Gnome just so things will look a little nicer. So I wind up with a bloated system that I use almost no features of. I really wish we could get Flux and Enlightenment just a little more polished.
If I am missing something about font support in Flux and Enlightenment please feel free to flame me. I honestly haven't spent a lot of time on it.
I, too, am a CLI junkie who likes to avoid bloat, and that's the main reason I dropped GNOME like a hot coal and started using Gentoo and Fluxbox. Are you using X.org? I find that X.org's fonts are absolutely horrible. License issues aside, XFree86's are much better.
/etc/fonts/local.conf
:-/
Also, this is my
It is tuned to turn off anti-aliasing for fonts so small it just makes them look bad. I got it from someone here on slashdot, I forget who you are but thank you.
And if you have an OEM Windows license with your computer, find the Microsoft corefonts package ("ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge corefonts" on gentoo)
This is unless you are talking about some fancy special fonts you would like to use. Because I've never been able to figure that stuff out on Linux