Hmm, doesn't Netscape have som GUI setup file called "Netscape.ad" where you can change virtually anything ? Even things that the GUI preferences does not allow!
If somebody (Mr. or Mrs. Netscape Wizard) figures out how to make the above change (if possible) in this file and post a quick HOWTO here probably somebody would be very happy.
Agreed, I have tried high resolutions (1600x1200), other fonts (URW) 75dpi, 100dpi. X fonts simply are ugly. Plus tampering too much with fonts makes some X apps (and their widgets) look wrong as they were not prepared for that.
Some sort of intelligent font smoothing are really needed, anything else (as mentioned above) just doesn't quite cut it. Windows look crisp and clean with respect to fonts, in comparison.
They said they would, moments later they "promised" they would "enhance" the XML format they would use in Office - how utterly annoying, not to mention transparent.
Well, a wordprocessor and a text editor are really two different things. I do not understand this comparison. Yes - there is LaTEX which somewhat blur this distinction, but I do not like LaTEX myself.
I use a text editor for programming and a wordprocessor for e.g. reports and letters.
Well, I do think SO should be split up in smaller modules, it is a hog.
Wordperfect is a wonderful wordprocessor. Cosmetically it is dog ugly, they should have used GTK or QT - that would even save them development time compared to that awful and huge (bloated) Motif API. However functionality is everything, good cosmetics just a nice to have (in my book). So for now I use WP. Sometimes I start a Windows98 up in a VmWare VM just to use Excel (with 128M RAM and a K6-III it is smooth);-), but as soon as I get the time I will start to test Linux spreadsheets to se if any fits my needs, the KOffice one seems interesting.
KOffice is coming along nicely and I like the way they do it, as for what people want in an office suite, please speak for yourself. I want more than you it seems. MS Office is bloated yes, but that does not mean that any implementation of object models will be bloated. Yes ofcourse they will be bigger, but with good programmers and SW designers - not neccesarily bloated.
It is like a desktop environment, it WILL use more memory than a TWM, but well written it will not use more than absolutely neccesary for its targeted functionality.
Ahh, soon we will have two desktop environments to choose from. Wonderful.
No more reviews of linux that speaks of the lack of DE, just because they have chosen to test a distribution that comes without a DE (usually Redhat). Because of GNOME and KDE all the big distributions will soon ship with a DE of choice.
And the more experienced users can choose one, the other, none or even mix them.
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Hmm, doesn't Netscape have som GUI setup file called "Netscape.ad" where you can change virtually anything ? Even things that the GUI preferences does not allow!
If somebody (Mr. or Mrs. Netscape Wizard) figures out how to make the above change (if possible) in this file and post a quick HOWTO here probably somebody would be very happy.
Agreed, I have tried high resolutions (1600x1200), other fonts (URW) 75dpi, 100dpi. X fonts simply are ugly. Plus tampering too much with fonts makes some X apps (and their widgets) look wrong as they were not prepared for that.
Some sort of intelligent font smoothing are really needed, anything else (as mentioned above) just doesn't quite cut it. Windows look crisp and clean with respect to fonts, in comparison.
They said they would, moments later they "promised" they would "enhance" the XML format they would use in Office - how utterly annoying, not to mention transparent.
Well, a wordprocessor and a text editor are really two different things. I do not understand this comparison. Yes - there is LaTEX which somewhat blur this distinction, but I do not like LaTEX myself.
I use a text editor for programming and a wordprocessor for e.g. reports and letters.
Well, I do think SO should be split up in smaller modules, it is a hog.
;-), but as soon as I get the time I will start to test Linux spreadsheets to se if any fits my needs, the KOffice one seems interesting.
Wordperfect is a wonderful wordprocessor. Cosmetically it is dog ugly, they should have used GTK or QT - that would even save them development time compared to that awful and huge (bloated) Motif API.
However functionality is everything, good cosmetics just a nice to have (in my book). So for now I use WP.
Sometimes I start a Windows98 up in a VmWare VM just to use Excel (with 128M RAM and a K6-III it is smooth)
KOffice is coming along nicely and I like the way they do it, as for what people want in an office suite, please speak for yourself. I want more than you it seems. MS Office is bloated yes, but that does not mean that any implementation of object models will be bloated. Yes ofcourse they will be bigger, but with good programmers and SW designers - not neccesarily bloated.
It is like a desktop environment, it WILL use more memory than a TWM, but well written it will not use more than absolutely neccesary for its targeted functionality.
Thanks, I will go home now and make my IDE disks fly
Life is good today!
I wonder whether this patch will make it into the 2.2.x series, I really need busmastering on my ALI thingy but don't want to use the 2.3.x series...
Ahh, soon we will have two desktop environments to choose from. Wonderful.
No more reviews of linux that speaks of the lack of DE, just because they have chosen to test a distribution that comes without a DE (usually Redhat).
Because of GNOME and KDE all the big distributions will soon ship with a DE of choice.
And the more experienced users can choose one, the other, none or even mix them.
Life is good.