A few things I noticed:
- My ATI drivers are now working. I thought they were before, but the frame rate is so much better now that they must not have been. Also, my screen is now entirely on my monitor. I knew this was a driver issue, but I had no idea how to fix it before.
- Firefox 2 is, of course, a huge improvement. I really missed spell checking. Firefox is not about to knock Safari off as my default browser on the Mac (at least, not until it does multi-platform extension/history/bookmark sharing via WebDAV), but it’s nice to have something respectable on the Linux box.
Now, for the bad things:
- I wish I’d kept better notes of the customizations I did to Dapper. I haven’t got the Windows key functioning properly yet.
- I still don’t like the theme. It has curved corners now. Big deal. That isn’t my problem with it; it’s simply ugly. Yes, I know there are other themes available. To my eye, the Human theme is the best of a sorry lot. I am, perhaps oddly enough, not looking for something that looks exactly like Mac OS X or exactly like Windows XP. I am simply looking for something clean, with nice color accents, and that doesn’t look like it has been beaten to death with an ugly stick and then left outside in the heat of summer for three weeks to rot. Oh, and left-aligned window titles without shadows would be nice, too.
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October 30th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Cool.