Re: [SLUG] Firefox could learn from IE
One thing that I've heard from a few people is that when you put IE and firefox (on windows) side by side, you can see that fthe fonts in IE are much clearer. This is usually because Windows XP does not enable ClearType (sub-pixel anti-aliasing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType) by default for all applications - just for IE. If you want firefox/win to look better, there's a setting somewhere in control panel for this. I know that there are linux sub-pixel anti-aliasing implementations, but couldn't really say how to configure it. Recently, it's been enabled out-of-the-box for me on ubuntu... Mike On 5/2/07, Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think firefox is a great browser but I think that firefox can learn one thing from IE I think that Firefox and IE try successfully to make their browsers user friendly so that the lowest common denominator can user their browsers, but IE is streets ahead, because out of IE and Firefox IE is the only browser that doesn't assume that everyone has 20/20 vision. I can hear everybody saying ctr+ will increase font. True but this will distort the web page even to the extent that some links or information can become hidden but only IE will show the web page with a suitable font size and layed out in such a way that no information is hidden or missing. In fact the first thing I noticed when I first used linux was that the fonts and everything just seemed to be smaller. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Reminder: Sydney Python Meetup Thursday May 3
Just a friendly reminder that on Thursday, May 3 2007 from 6:30PM, there will be a social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc. Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged. We meet in the ground floor area next to P.J. O'Briens Pub internal entrance in the Grace Hotel, Cnr York and King Street Sydney, New South Wales 2000 See you there. Regards Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux users in Canberra and photography
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:58 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: For full colour profiling, you should start by checking out little cms[2]. It provides utilities to help generate ICC colour profiles, which individual image editors are expected to know how to read (more often than not, they also use lcms to do so). The documentation for the DTP package Scribus has a very good overview of colour management in Linux, including some pointers to further reading. http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=enpage=cms -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Display problem with emacs
I've just recently installed Debian Etch on my main machine. Everything works a treat except the Emacs display. I use white characters on a black background. I looks like there are vertical shadow bands passing through the emacs display. The bands are fixed - if I move emacs slightly the shadows appear to stay fixed. Emacs is the only application that I am seeing this on. The screen is a 22 Chimei CMV221D. The (probably relevant part of xorg.conf looks like: Section Device # Driver nv Identifier nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] Driver nvidia EndSection Any clues would be much appreciated since I use emacs a lot. Cheers, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
