| A glimpse of the future? I hope so. [Linux and Main] |
Jan. 30, 2003
In his view from the desktop, Dennis E. Powell examines Ximian Desktop 2.0 and finds it to be "impressive" at Linux and Main . . ,
"The first sense I got of it was one of unity and smoothness, with all the edges nicely polished. This is something that KDE has been good at since 2.0, and one of the places where GNOME has been catching up, not to say they're not getting there. Ximian has taken it to a point I've not seen anywhere else. But I cannot tell you any one thing that makes me say that . . . "
"They've done some nice things with OpenOffice to integrate it with the rest of the desktop; they have not, alas, made it half the size and twice as fast. They've licensed (or freed, I apologize that I don't remember which; the demonstration came on the same day that the GNOME Foundation and BitStream announced the freeing of some BitStream typefaces) a number of very nice looking typefaces that exactly coincide with the ones Microsoft ships; as a result, their browser renders pages "best viewed in Internet Explorer," as the incompaibility is euphemistically called, exactly as if in Internet Explorer. Font anti-aliasing is of course present throughout . . . "
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