Cairo, which GTK+ 2.8 uses, makes DejaVu Condensed fonts (kind of like Bitstream Vera, only more complete and not so fat) look noticeably sharper. Or am I just imagining things? Does font rendering get assisted by Cairo, or is it only Xft?
In other news, life goes on. Work is work. Play is … hardly. Scaled a mountain a few weeks back. Okay, so it had steps, and it was called Tirumalai, but it was painful and unnecessary. We live in masochistic times – it was fun.
More to come later.
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My gawd.. How could you even climb so much. You really are self punishing :-P
This was the essence of the 2 hours of bitching I put into the first, steep part. After that I was too winded to crib. :D