Welcome to my corner of the web!
My name is Mihai and all I do is web development,
be it server-side (Perl, PHP, mySQL) or client-side. I am mainly
interested of Web standards and related technologies. I've got good
experience with Flash as well, but I no longer like it much.
I contribute on various web standards-related mailing lists. Check
the links in the side bar (on the right). I also contribute with
reviews and comments on various web specifications (see
my CV). Additionally, I am
constantly working on several projects of my own.
I am an Opera user,
but I also like Webkit, Gecko and KHTML. I despise Internet Explorer 6 and
7 for wasting many hours of my life when coding web sites. I am an
Ubuntu Linux user - no
dual-boot.
5 November 2008, 12:38
One of the most common issues on Linux is font rendering. Usually
the Arial font renders really badly, especially if you use Gnome and you try KDE/Qt
applications (for example Opera).
Gnome and KDE use fontconfig to render fonts, but both use
different settings. As such, if you pick your Gnome-based distro, you usually have
problems with KDE/Qt, and vice-versa.
The Appearance properties (gnome-appearance-properties) allows you
to nicely change the font rendering options. You can also manually
adjust these settings using the gconf-edit tool, just go to the
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering preference keys.
KDE has it's own appearance properties, but usually Gnome users
don't know which one it is, and they don't want to install the
entire KDE package.
To adjust the font rendering options for KDE/Qt applications,
here's what you need to know. You can create a per-user
~/.fonts.conf file, or you can set system-wide settings by editing
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf (and/or /etc/fonts/conf.d).
Download my .fonts.conf
file. Just save this in your home folder and restart your
KDE/Qt applications. I use the same settings in Gnome.
I do not recommend you to edit the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file.
However, you can still adjust global settings by changing the
symbolic links in /etc/fonts/conf.d. I did that myself.
Please read man fonts.conf for more details.
Note: you might not like my font rendering configuration, because
it also depends on your monitor and screen resolution. Please
adjust the settings as needed.
Published in:
configuration,
fonts,
gnome,
kde,
linux,
qt.
1 August 2007, 05:31
Someone contacted me several months ago asking for my KDE color
scheme, after he read my blog post about the Kubuntu
theme.
Now I had the time to do so. Download my KDE Human color
scheme.
Note: The color scheme was made for personal use.
No changes were made for this release. I did not intend to make it
look very good/professional. Actually, I believe it looks pretty
bad in KDE. I use GNOME and the colors are picked such that the KDE
applications look good enough in GNOME.
I use the Polyester
KDE Style. You might want to try the Klearlook KDE
style as well. Both styles are available in the Ubuntu
repositories.
For making your KDE applications even more ... Human, make sure you
pick the Human icons in KControl.
Good luck. :)
Published in:
colors,
configuration,
gnome,
kde,
qt,
ubuntu.