19 Jan
2021
19 Jan
'21
10 p.m.
On 2021-01-19 01:04:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2021 Mon, 18 Jan 16:04:49 -0600
J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
I just wonder ... why the heck did the GNOMEs have to port the worst of M$
to Linux? Does this make some "pros" feel more at home?
Nik
"Pros"?
<rant>
It greatly irritates me that the Linux developer community has followed both
Gnome's and Microsoft's leads in dumbing down (and locking down) the user
interface. For instance, I can't understand their shift from Serif fonts to
Sans-Serif, making reading text much harder; and taking away much of the
user-customization options.
Why does Gnome waste so much screen real-estate with large fonts, icons and
borders? Is this because they expect Linux users to follow the Windows
community's habit of maximizing their application windows, even with today's
high-resolution displays?
</rant>
Leslie
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I have my own hand-edited GTK2 and GTK3 theming files (set up for
white text on black/dark blue) that I can offer as examples if you need
them, although both styles are slightly flawed.
E. Liddell
There are also gnome-control-center and gnome-tweaks, which might be
helpful.