On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:54:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a > > MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. > > Have you taken a look at KDE or Gnome? KDE in sid is up to 3.1 if you > ignore the kde metapackage and rough it manually.
Well, the goal was to not switch window managers. I wonder how hosed my system will be if I try to get kde from sid installed in my testing/unstable machine. I frankly do not fully understand the difference between something like a small window manager like IceWM or Blackbox and KDE or Gnome. When I had KDE installed before it seemed like there was a lot of processes running. And I remember it was a bit of work just to get Kmail installed as it had a bunch of dependencies that, IIRC, were not solved just by apt-get install. > I'm also liking how easy it is to enable anti-aliasing. I now have > sub-pixel anti-aliasing and my text is now absurdly sharp and easy to > read. That's cool. I spent months screwing with my fonts. I finally disabled anti-aliasing for smaller font sizes because they looked too fuzzy to me. I'm still not sure if that's just personal opinion, or if my config was bad, or had sub-pixel set wrong, or bad video card or aging monitor (Sony G500 21"), or what. It was also a pain because my system seems to be a mix of xft and xft2 so I was messing with both XftConfig and fonts.conf. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
