Customizing SLED on my Laptop…
Well, I did make an honest attempt to live with Novell’s customized GNOME implementation in SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on my notebook, but I simply couldn’t get comfortable in GNOME, even Novell’s version. I think they did a great job, but I will always be a KDE user at heart, so…I popped my DVD back in and loaded up KDE, logged out, back into KDE, switched Display Manager to KDM from GDM and used YaST to uninstall GNOME (I hate having GNOME apps littering my K-Menu).
I have always said that SuSE (any flavor) has the best KDE implementation out there (I can’t wait to see what they do w/ KDE 4 once it matures more), and SLED does not dissapoint. There are, however a few minor font customizations that I do to any KDE install, and I thought I would share.
First, you have to install the Microsoft fonts, and you can only do this if you legally own MS Windows, and not only do I legally own MS Windows, but I have several unused licenses of XP that I can “borrow” the font licenses from.
Once they are installed, configure your fonts to match the setting in my screenshot, and you will be in font rendering heaven. I have included screenshots for configurations in KDE itself as well as Firefox. My only other real “customization” is changing the insane default setting of “single-click” on the desktop to “double-click”.
