After suffering with Linux fonts for awhile, I ended up spending hundreds of hours messing around with and learning about FONTS. My initial goal was to make fonts render similarly to the way they do on Windows, which is where I came from. After my experience though, I've come to realize that with some tweaks (with my patches), fonts render better on my Linux system than any other OS I've seen. I go back to Windows and see grainy, hard fonts. Freetype's slight rendering with LCD filtering is easily superior to Windows. Apple's font rendering is a sloppy mess, in my opinion. They apparently gave up on the hinting they helped develop, and have gone to a completely un-hinted solution, which may look OK under high resolution, but to me, on my monitor, looks very blurry and sloppy. I'm very happy with the patches I've made, although there is absolutely room for improvement, or at least customization.
In my opinion, the way fonts render on your system should be as customizable as you want them to be. That is why I love Linux. Everything you want to do is at your fingertips. If you don't like it, you are free to modify and enjoy it. What a cool thing.
http://www.infinality.net/blog/?p=67
This project attempts to replicate the new taskbar functionality of Windows 7 in KDE4 / Plasma. Aside from that, it’s still a nice replacement for the default KDE4 task list. The source appears to be updated often, but packages may not always be up to date here. For the bleeding edge, you should build it yourself: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Smooth+Tasks?content=101586
(UPDATE: Apparently this only works on my system at the moment… looking into the issue with the package…. stay tuned.)
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/12/
Source from: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=107158&forumpage=9
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/12/
Fedora 12 has updated audacious to version 2.1, but there is a problem with the LADSPA plugin not saving its settings (See: http://jira.atheme.org/browse/AUDPLUG-2 ) and the game console music plugin crashing (http://jira.atheme.org/browse/AUDPLUG-40 ). I’ve built audacious-plugin packages that fix this issue after reading about the workarounds mentioned on the pages.
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/12/
Fedora 12 RPMS have been added to the repository. QtCurve-common package is now obsolete, as it is included in the gtk2 package. This gets past some goofy dependency issues. Let me know if you experience any issues with the F12 packages!
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/
