GNOME 3.0 released

Posted Apr 6, 2011 23:36 UTC (Wed) by kenmoffat (subscriber, #4807)
In reply to: GNOME 3.0 released by sumanah
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 released

I'm running enough of 2.30 to use epiphany on the installation where I'm logged in at the moment. For some reason, that link on tweaking Cantarell is unreadable until I enlarge it several times.

But - why should a different font be a major part of the desktop experience ? If I don't have the specified font, I expect freetype to produce a workable version of the glyphs. Gnome managed to do that for years, and it was the one area where kde4 improved on kde3. Ocasionally, that doesn't look pretty (for some of the most obscure European glyphs, like k with caron, on my machines freetype falls back to freefont, and some of the glyphs in that are somewhat anaemic). But for almost everything I encounter, the existing fonts work perfectly well.

At the moment I'm trying to bite my tongue, but this gives every impression of "change for the sake of it".

ken

GNOME 3.0 released

Posted Apr 7, 2011 5:17 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

I wonder if they finally eliminated Emacs edit-key bindings. They have been working toward that for a long time, first by wiping it out of the dialog box, and then deleting the on-line documentation in gconf.