Make TrueType fonts universal to Gnome 2.0

["Jean O'Mara" <jeano_mara hotmail com>]

Hello Gnome.org and all who work on the Gnome 2.0 project,

Can Gnome 2.0 actually read TrueType fonts? This is something that can be 
much enhanced, and I have written out my suggestion for you, as I am not a 
computer programming expert in relation to Linux.

Can you make TrueType fonts accessible to all Gnome applications?

I suggest you make Gnome 2.0 the universal way of Linux to handle TrueType 
fonts along with anti-aliasing. The reason for this is that there are no 
universal standards for Linux to handle fonts, of any kind, including Type 1 
fonts. Also, anti-aliasing should be applicable to TrueType fonts under 
Gnome 2.0.

Many programs look ugly as Linux does not come with any TrueType fonts so I 
suggest you write out so that all Gnome-based applications can use TrueType 
fonts and have some kind of configuration available to end-users to control 
the look-and-feel of non-Gnome programs, by saying in source code that Gnome 
(2.0) will have the ability to overwrite the program's own default 
look-and-feel. Overwriting a program's default look-and-feel should be 
toggleable.

I had a problem with the existing fonts on my Linux system with the Gimp. Is 
the Gimp part of the Gnome project? It looks more like a third-party project 
in relation to Gnome. You should also write out a Web browser compatible to 
Netscape (as Mozilla is closed source) but Linux is still some way to  being 
friendly to a predominantly Windows based environment.

If you can work on this part of the development project, much of Gnome 2.0 
will be appreciated and if successful, contact as many Linux vendors to 
include the new Gnome as standard so we can all make Linux easier to use for 
the beginner.

- Colin Omara.



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