I have just installed redhat 8.0 and thumbs up, congrats a usual with redhat releases. I hope that you don't take the following as an offense but that it will provide constructive criticism. It is the issue of anti aliased fonts. In my view and I have asked others their opinion and agreed with me that the aa fonts somehow don't look quite right in gnome 2.0 apps and the desktop. They appear out of focus somewhat and don't make the desktop look any clearer to me ( Both the same affect on two machines I have installed. Perhaps I am missing the point and it is the type of fonts installed but from what I can see, if I disable it with GDK_USE_XFT=0 (which I have put in my .bashrc_profile) and set the sans font size to 9 in preferences it looks much nicer ( to me anyway). On top of that it makes pre-gnome 2 applications like galeon and evolution look more at home, for instance gnome terminal a gnome 2 app looks identical with the menus/toolbar as evolution galeon does. Would it not have been advisable to make to whole desktop look as consistent as possible? With the default settings gnome2 and gnome 1.4 apps look too different for my liking and really makes the whole thing give a way the fact that it is a halfway house between gnome 1.4 and gnome 2.0. Here is a screen shot of what it looks like now. Notice how the desktop, gnome-terminal and evo have identical looking fonts and are easy to read. Is there a way with aa switched on to get those nice thin looking fonts I have now because it seems to me that anti aliasing only seems to swell them up, so to speak and leaves pre gnome 2 apps alone with gnome 1.4 looking fonts. Alexander Borro
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