New Year, New Bugs
It’s a bad habit and I should have made it a resolution to cut down,
but let me warn you: using apt-get to track Debian unstable can be a bad thing.
Yep, even when the applications you’re using seem to have reached the
point where they’re good enough there’s still the nagging thought that maybe the next upgrade will bring new pleasures.
So logging in this morning I find that apt-get swapped-out the font redering library and all my gnome2 apps are antialiaserized! (though not the Terminal, thank Bob!) Arrrghhh.
I don’t object to anti-alias font rendering in principle… only for text I
actually want to read. Looking at the newly rendered the entries in straw at point size 11 makes me feel confused and sleepy (OK, more so). At the standard text-for-reading size the kerning isn’t too hot, and the difference between medium and bold is slight enough that it’s difficult to tell the difference.
So I bring up the Gnome Font Prefs applet, and there’s no “turn off anti-aliasing” button, for now I’m stuck with it until I have enough free time to go hunting through dpkg output.
Maybe I need more GAR?
So to celebrate unecessary software updates I’m moving the blog over to a beta version of the content manglement software I’m coding.
