Gnome 42 Released

Post by gnome_suck » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 10:05 PM UTC

Post by kingboss » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

zajio1am wrote: post #10

Shadonototra wrote: post #2

https://release.gnome.org/42/console-screenshot.webp When distro maintainers ship with poor font configurations, the world have to suffer with blurry fonts (specially on dark backgrounds).. Everyone should pick the freetype2 patches from ChromeOS, it makes a huge difference

There is a way to improve font sharpness with current freetype2 by setting variable: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 Unfortunately, default behavior for freetype2 is blurry.

Post by copperx » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

peakaboo wrote: post #7

Koshkin wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since they changed the desktop UI (UX?) Gnome has felt somewhat alien and even cringy to me. Nonetheless I have been using it for years just because in Debian it happens to be the default; after my recent switch to Slackware which doesn't include it, I started using KDE, and now I feel right at home.

For me KDE is too buggy. Always issues with everything from the indexer going nuts to random theme clutches etc...