In the third installment of the Stealth Desktop series about Slackware Linux, Eduardo Sánchez builds upon the previous steps of Part I and Part II. Continuing where those parts left off, he introduces the subjects of user, font and printer management in Slackware.
The Stealth Desktop Part III: Managing Users, Fonts and Printers
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Installing fonts through KDE font manager.. is that a joke?????
It works! (Well, at least this work when I used KDE last time)
So why is there a joke? Remember this article is about how to use Slackware like a normal desktop OS. So, it is _expected_ to see the author introducing GUI utilities for handling _basic_ works like, in this particular, installing fonts.
Didn’t we already read part 3?
Well it is a font manager.
Of course you can install fonts the easy way, by copying to /home/username/.fonts/
best distro ever!!!
KDE font manager used to suck. 3.2 works pretty well.
I am a little disappointed by this review. In my opinion the biggest advantage of slackware is, that are no tools. So the user realize how his system works.
Therefor a user should learn howto install fonts, configure X, etc without any tool.
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Therefor a user should learn howto install fonts, configure X, etc without any tool.”
Not to be rude, but… fuck that.
Some of us have more important things to do than research archaic material or even care what goes on under the hood – that includes even some of us developers.
Ask a mechanic if he gives a hoot how his Craftsman 1/2 was made.
most of the mechanics i know repair their own tools and they very rightly atleast know how they were made. anyways, i like this article im gunna give it a try. i hope this slackware thing isnt to difficult, after all imma pretty advanced windows user.
The guy’s got a point .. if you’re not interested in getting your hands dirty, Slackware is probably not the distro for you.
How exactly do you do anything in linux with out using the provided tools?
>>”most of the mechanics i know repair their own tools”
Their real interest is probably noodling with their tools, not using them.
>>” In my opinion the biggest advantage of slackware is, that are no tools. So the user realize how his system works.
Therefor a user should learn howto install fonts, configure X, etc without any tool.”
You’re making a judgment about computer users that you don’t have the right to make. Some folks want to learn about software, others want to learn how to use software. Those are two different goals. Neither is “better” than the other.
Besides, software design has been one long effort to make computing easier since we gave up tripping switches and looking at LEDs. No one is goin to award gold starts for learning how to do something the hard way. If Linux/Unix tickles your fancy, fine. But, don’t forget that Unix was around for years before Windows and didn’t exactly take the world by storm.