On Oct 24, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Mario Goebbels wrote: > Gnome or KDE in themselves aren't the issue. The themes are. Window > borders, control themes, icons, fonts (including hinting and > antialiasing), size of paddings/spacings and margins, colors, > dimensions of controls, and so on. In my opinion, especially wrong > fonts and spacing are a deal breakers. > > Looking at how e.g. Gnome’s default style looks, as it does right > now, compared to what Windows or MacOSX look like, it makes me wrap > my arms around my head. And it can be fixed
Boy, that just touched a hot button. If Indiana could be structured in such a way that anti-aliasing isn't an optional extra, that would be a qualitative step forward for open-source operating systems. And you'd get cries of joy from a substantial number of obsessive (but influential) thought leaders. -Tim _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
