I find Gnome2 with Red Hat's Limbo to be quite nice.
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:30, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Once upon a time, Brian wrote :
>
> >     I'm using the Gnome2 set of rpms through apt.  It's very good, though
> >     it's shy of converted apps and such.  I really like it; it's the
> >     simple, stable competitor to Windows(tm) that we all need/want/etc.
>
> Well, you can already remove me from your "all" statement... :-( I've been
> using GNOME 2 at home ever since it made it into Rawhide, and I must say
> that I feel really uncomfortable with it : Things are just too limited and
> you're now asked to stick with the defaults. I've already switched back
> from Metacity to Sawfish, but for the main GNOME stuff like the panel and
> the control center... there are now too few options for "advanced users"
> like me who like to be able to configure as much as possible.
>
> Let's see how it evolves... but the GNOME guys who decide seem to want to
> change everything to be as simple and limited as possible to not confuse
> the basic (lower then average IMHO) user. So in the meantime, I stick with
> GNOME 1.4 and I'm quite happy with how it performs in my daily tasks
> although it doesn't have the nice look of anti-aliased fonts (I mainly use
> and LCD screen and projector anyway).
>
> >     Problem is, though, Pango (a package that deals with international
> >     font rendering) hasn't been made available to the apt repository on
> >     Sunmore.net.
>
> Maybe try grabbing it from the latest Red Hat Linux beta (Limbo) or from
> Rawhide...
>
> >     Who the heck do I contact for this, anyway?
>
> Not me, sorry!
>
> Matthias
>
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