Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha [LWN.net]

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 8, 2011 22:57 UTC (Tue) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha by wondoman
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

> Were can I change the font hinting? Where can I change
the Desktop fonts?

I second that. It is rather strange that Gnome-3 does not provide this basic feature yet. Nowadays with a wide range of screen sizes and resolutions there is no way that one default setting can work. For example, Gnome-3 fonts on my 11.9" laptop with 1366x768 resolution almost instantly caused too much eye strain especially with those tiny icon titles.

And where can I disable all window animation?

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Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 8, 2011 23:40 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] (6 responses)

I don't think they want to let you turn off the animations. After all, if you could do that then GNOME Shell would work without requiring accelerated 3D. You would think that would be an option... after all "desktop virtualization" is on the list of "next big things in IT"... and hardware accelerated 3D doesn't work (at all or very well) in most virtualization products including KVM... so no GNOME Shell in your virtual desktop... nor in your remote terminal services type access types (VNC, FreeNX, NX, etc).

If you aren't hardware accelerated 3D capable, then it reverts to a quasi-GNOME 2.x interface. On the Fedora 15 Alpha release you can simulate a non-3D accelerated environment by picking "Boot (Basic Video)" at the boot screen (as witnessed in this review http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/03/preview-fedora-15-gn...). Don't expect the visual touches to be there in this mode though... as the window decorations and theme are very basic.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 9, 2011 0:33 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (4 responses)

>I don't think they want to let you turn off the animations.

Sounds like another instance of this gnomy paternalism, seen before when Linus had his temporary move to KDE episode.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 9, 2011 18:28 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (3 responses)

Sounds like another instance of this gnomy paternalism

That only applies if GNOME forces you to use GNOME against your will. If that is the case, please contact the GNOME Foundation board and that is a pretty big no no.

Saw also this quote when I tried to add a comment:

Please try to be polite, respectful, and informative, and to provide a useful subject line.

The comments regarding GNOME on Lwn aren't really polite IMO.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 10, 2011 8:38 UTC (Thu) by djao (guest, #4263) [Link] (2 responses)

Nobody forces me to use GNOME, which is a good thing, as I have no intention of using GNOME3, even though all my desktops are presently GNOME2. As I understand it, the original poster was saying the same thing.

There is nothing impolite or disrespectful about pointing out that GNOME3 is unsuitable for my needs. Nor is there anything impolite or disrespectful about suggesting to the GNOME developers that they should pay attention to what users actually want. After all, if they lose all their users, the community loses too.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 10, 2011 15:14 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe you want to lookup the definition of Paternalism (I had to do that):

Paternalism is the interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm.

You said gnomy paternalism. If I then read above definition, I fail to understand that at first you mention paternalism, which also includes forcing people against their will. Then in a followup, you mention you're not forced?

I presume maybe your understand or Paternalism or the one I found via Google (2nd link) is not in sync with what it really means.

To be 100% clear: No issues with suggestions that GNOME should listen to users (think we try, but that is a different discussion :) ).

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 10, 2011 15:18 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Oh, whoops. Two different persons (thought the one I initially responded to and the followup is someone different). :)

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 9, 2011 7:58 UTC (Wed) by fsphil (guest, #44932) [Link]

Ah, well that explains my comment below about it appearing ugly - my system doesn't do any kind of video acceleration.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha

Posted Mar 9, 2011 23:56 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link]

Where can I add, remove, or change panels? Where can I add launchers to the existing panels?