Check the thread on lists.kde.org under kde-devel. (Search for the subject of anti alias, and you will find it) They talk quite a bit about these issues.
It may be cleaner, but you can edit runlevels much easier with SysV-style. (It's just making or removing a symlink) It's easier for a package to add itself to a runlevel. You can edit runlevels with either system, but BSD-style requires you to parse files rather than just add/remove symlinks.
I think that it just makes sense for SysV init scripts in a package based system. Granted, slackware is more of a non-package based system. (other than the packages that come with the system, you never see a slackware tgz listed in the download options)
You can do it in imlib or gnome-canvas, but that is not the proper place to do so, and makes it very hard for the mozilla developers to do. (because of their cross platform architecture) If X had alpha channel support, we would have alpha channel support right now.
If you can do the alpha channel stuff like gnome-canvas, just hop on over and tell them how. I'm sure they'd be glad to hear it.
Are you sure about the 2.3 kernel? I know that the dri stuff was broken in everything greater than kernel 2.3.45. I'm using 3d glx acceleration with kernel 2.2.14 now. (XF86 3.9.18)
I'm all for color. People in general work better with colors than numbers and greys.
It's much easier to see a red item on the screen and knowing that it is important rather than having a little number next to it telling you the priority. Sure you can sort them, but that can't be done in all instances. For example, a calendar program can't rearrange the days (without getting confusing). It would be nice to have a color flag to grab your attention -- drawing you towards the more important information.
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Well, you certainly can't complain about it not being updated frequently enough! :)
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XFree86 4.0 is not alpha. It's out.
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Check the thread on lists.kde.org under kde-devel. (Search for the subject of anti alias, and you will find it) They talk quite a bit about these issues.
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Just so you know, I didn't modify any code. It just loads that way! :)
If you look at slash's html, you'll see:
face="arial,helvetica"
So, arial is tried first.
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What is underneath the image can change. (DHTML allows this)
Look at the comment by newt@pobox.com on 1999-11-01 08:00 if you want to know the details.
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You only think it is a Windows Clone because you came from windows. If you came from CDE, you would think it was a CDE clone.
I think they've done a good job.
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It may be cleaner, but you can edit runlevels much easier with SysV-style. (It's just making or removing a symlink) It's easier for a package to add itself to a runlevel. You can edit runlevels with either system, but BSD-style requires you to parse files rather than just add/remove symlinks.
I think that it just makes sense for SysV init scripts in a package based system. Granted, slackware is more of a non-package based system. (other than the packages that come with the system, you never see a slackware tgz listed in the download options)
But.. to each their own!
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When will you break down and make the switch to SysV style init scripts? (If ever)
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Read the link. They _DON'T_ know what is underneath the graphic. (They may have added that functionality since last I read, though)
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At the moment, it is the reason why mozilla does not have alpha channel PNG.
See this page for more details.
You can do it in imlib or gnome-canvas, but that is not the proper place to do so, and makes it very hard for the mozilla developers to do. (because of their cross platform architecture) If X had alpha channel support, we would have alpha channel support right now.
If you can do the alpha channel stuff like gnome-canvas, just hop on over and tell them how. I'm sure they'd be glad to hear it.
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I had to do this:
(In the TT font directory)
ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
cp fonts.dir fonts.scale
then I restarted X. (I suppose I could have done xset fp rehash, but I wasn't sure if that would work)
After I did that, all was good!
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It's Arial. It might be hard to see because it is a jpeg, but they are much cleaner on my display. They "feel" sharper.
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Here is a pic of the TT fonts in netscape (very crisp!), and the gears openGL demo.
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I bet you that X will get a transparency extension. That's really what's holding back trans. PNG graphics in Mozilla right now.
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Are you sure about the 2.3 kernel? I know that the dri stuff was broken in everything greater than kernel 2.3.45. I'm using 3d glx acceleration with kernel 2.2.14 now. (XF86 3.9.18)
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X-Files was about two weeks ago??
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Well, if you have not installed the x server from them, do it. Other x servers will not work. (theirs has some extensions added)
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Make sure you install the X server provided by linux.3dfx.com.
Exactly what did you install?
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It won't look the same with plain text, either. Lynx does not do variable font size.
;-)
Anyway, jwz is a very informed guy.
Nothing says that he has to have his page accessable by anyone.
http://tv.cream.org/buchan certainly isn't!
Not everyone has that font. Requiring them to get it is a hastle, and possibly impossible.
He wanted his page to look the same no matter what browser was used.
I'm all for color. People in general work better with colors than numbers and greys.
It's much easier to see a red item on the screen and knowing that it is important rather than having a little number next to it telling you the priority. Sure you can sort them, but that can't be done in all instances. For example, a calendar program can't rearrange the days (without getting confusing). It would be nice to have a color flag to grab your attention -- drawing you towards the more important information.
i was going to say that, but I wasn't 100% sure. ;-)
Stampede is not new! I have had it installed since September of 1998, and it was out for a while before then.
Yes, but Stampede was around before mandrake was geared towards optimization.
Most 3d game engines are written in C, though.
;-)
Maybe in a few years..