On 24/10/2007, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
I think Ubuntu and others leave it enabled and setup so that if you choose to enable the "higher quality" option it gives you some legal blurb warning and asks if you really want to continue. To me that's fine and better than not shipping the option at all. Obviously there are patent issues with having the functionality enabled by default; same with mp3, etc. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
