OT: Ubuntu (was: Entice Designer 0.8.2 release)

[Jan Claeys]

Op Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:19:00 +0200
schreef "Saaa" <empty at needmail.com>:

> I've never worked with Vista, I have with Ubuntu. Before using ubuntu
> I thought I might be swayed and at least wanted to install it on my
> parents computer, but I wasn't really satisfied with compatibility of
> software(which isn't listed as ubuntu'safe'?)

What exactly do you mean with that?

> and the explorer was kinda not really user-friendly for me :)

I quite like it most of the time, but there are other file managers
available if you prefer them...  :)

> (and then there is the drag drop which won't bring a window to front
> when I have something hanging above it

IIRC there are settings for such things "somewhere".

> and the dead keys (which I had to enable) which keeps on bleeping
> when I hit ' + t in "don't"

That's your punishment for turning normal keys into dead keys...   ;-P

If your keyboard layout doesn't have dedicated dead keys, it's probably
better to use a compose key (enable it in the keyboard configuration)
and/or AltGr (or AltGr-emulation on right Alt) to enter accented
letters.

E.g., by default my Belgian keyboard has <'> (single quote mark), <’>
(single closing quote mark) and <´> (acute accent), with the last 2
accessible through AltGr, and only the "accent" one being a dead key...

> and last my videocard wasn't supported, my screen didn't want to go
> to 100Hz,

Even if it doesn't work out-of-the-box, I would be surprised if it
really would not be possible to force it.  :)

> and colour management is crap)

That depends on the application, e.g. Scribus and some other
applications have good colour management (through liblcms).


-- 
JanC