LWN: Comments on "GNOME 3.28 released"

Fonts are hard

flussence — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:48:21 +0000

They're pretty to look at but impractical as a default. Noto Sans/Serif isn't fatiguing for long term use at any common DPI, and has metrics mostly consistent with other UI fonts; those Libertine fonts are considerably smaller at the same point sizes. DejaVu Sans fell out of widespread use for the same reasons: it has a very small size range where it looks good (10pt @ 100-120dpi), and it's an awkward shape to work with.

Fonts are hard

mpr22 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:06:55 +0000

Biolinum, with its subtle end-flaring on the vertical strokes, looks like it was designed purely for the printed page, and generates some really distracting fuzziness when used as a body-text font at monitor-friendly point sizes.

Fonts are hard

ncm — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:16:34 +0000

I cannot understand why everyone is not using LinuxLibertine and Biolinum fonts by default.

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scientes — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:37:46 +0000

It doesn't have to be. Its a problem with the design of proc

https://criu.org/Task-diag

Fonts are hard

zdzichu — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:32:24 +0000

Fedora is discussing a switch from Cantarell to Noto Sans UI because of that.

Fonts are hard

antnisp — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:01:43 +0000

I hope they have proper extended glyph support for all variants. Greek text rendered in Cantarell looked really out of place back in Fedora 17.

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jond — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:12:39 +0000

Does it (try) to do it at 60fps? I'd suggest something nearer ½ or ¼ fps would be a more reasonable target.

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bandrami — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:36:17 +0000

I've seen plain old top(1) chew up nearly that much. Process accounting can be expensive.

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patrick_g — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 06:50:23 +0000

Xfce activity monitor eat only 1% of CPU to display the same thing.

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flussence — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:10:27 +0000

Didn't GNOME2's activity monitor do that (the first problem) too, though? It takes quite a lot of CPU to poll all of /proc/ and software-render a smooth graph at 60fps.

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rahulsundaram — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:55:20 +0000

> But the new Usage application looks less promising if it needs 24% of a core just to plot cpu and memory usage. I also notice that the processor graph uses the same colour for all cores.

I suppose that is why they call it a tech preview. To get bug reports

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sb — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:42:34 +0000

But the new Usage application looks less promising if it needs 24% of a core just to plot cpu and memory usage. I also notice that the processor graph uses the same colour for all cores.

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marduk — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:54:24 +0000

The Thunderbolt 3 security stuff looks promising.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/ThunderboltAccess