Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Foresight Linux 0.9.4 was first to incorporate GNOME 2.14 on their distribution, VMWare and Qemu images are already available in addition to their normal distribution.
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Member since:2005-07-08
You can't set any colors yet (aside from panel background), so where would you put this setting? Then what would you do with the shadows if for example you set the text to black? Automatically figure out when to use a shadow and when not? It's not so simple at all. Do XP and OSX allow you to change the desktop font color and how do they handle it?
At least the current default should work fine in most cases (with the only exception being white or almost-white wallpapers and even then you can still read the text...).
Member since:2005-06-29
No need to get defensive. I said I _like_ GNOME and use it along with XFCE. Where would this preference go? Well, either the Font preferences panel or the Desktop Background preferences panel, for starters. And for the shadow -- couldn't you have a checkbox or something? It's not _that_ complicated. Anyway, that is one of the few KDE features that I would like to see in GNOME.
Member since:2005-11-05
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2005-06-29
I like GNOME, and use it quite often (either GNOME or XFCE). One thing that has bugged me about GNOME is that there is no easy way to change the color of the desktop fonts. By default they are white with a bit of shading. What if you want to use a white background? How do you make the fonts dark? I know there is a hacky way to do it with gconf or something but c'mon, that should be a simple preference setting somewhere.