Default Ubuntu Desktop
2005-11-27
Just reinstalled Ubuntu, and I almost forgot to take a screenshot before tuning my own Ubuntu desktop. No wonder why even my workmates are urging me to do something about Chinese support in Ubuntu. It’s quite ugly by default, and needs some significant amount of time to adjust.
- The font looks like Japanese one, sometimes intermixed with a few glyphs from Chinese font; that’s somewhat “normal” given that Japanese font has a higher priority in fontconfig. Probably fontconfig needs a per-locale font ordering?
- The glyphs look irregular; will be better after disabling automatic hinting.
- The default font is way too small for CJK environment, so that some glyphs with more strokes looks just like a dark square. Why must it be so for EVERY Linux distro?
These are the issues immediately popping up in my head after first impression; but certainly there are lots more (e.g. gnome-games not playable, many of the applets crashing under dual-head Xorg config). I’ll need some time filing bugs and get the work done…
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