Debian Gnome not polished as Ubuntu Gnome?

**Laxman_prodigy** · April 6th, 2010

Its rock solid. Very fast. But I miss the polish.

Even if I installed new fonts, the fonts are not like smooth.

Any suggestions for polishing Debian Gnome?

**Khakilang** · April 6th, 2010

What version of Gnome you are using?

**Laxman_prodigy** · April 6th, 2010

I don't know but I use Debian lenny.

Even in Debian testing, it is so.

**keiichidono** · April 6th, 2010

Debian's Gnome is not the latest version and doesn't have very many patches as far as I know. That is why you may feel as if the Gnome that Debian uses isn't as "polished" as the Gnome used in Ubuntu. I do not know of an easy way to give Debian's Gnome more "polish".

**Khakilang** · April 6th, 2010

Here I use Gnome 2.28.1. Maybe you can go to System> About Gnome. It will show what version you are using. I don;t know about Debian Lenny but I think they work just the same. Here take a look at the attached image.

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**Laxman_prodigy** · April 6th, 2010

Originally Posted by Koh Kook Loon

Here I use Gnome 2.28.1. Maybe you can go to System> About Gnome. It will show what version you are using. I don;t know about Debian Lenny but I think they work just the same. Here take a look at the attached image.

Screenshot-3.png

Gnome 2.22. But the testing branch of Debian uses quite latest and its still the same.

**Psumi** · April 6th, 2010

Originally Posted by Laxman_prodigy

Gnome 2.22. But the testing branch of Debian uses quite latest and its still the same.

Latest GNOME is 2.30 actually. Debian Testing uses 2.28

GNOME Shell will be default in GNOME 2.30/3.0 come September.

**Zoot7** · April 6th, 2010

Originally Posted by Laxman_prodigy

Any suggestions for polishing Debian Gnome?

http://gnome-look.org/

**ibuclaw** · April 6th, 2010

The polish in fonts usually come from applications that use libxft for rendering. I would recommend that you use Squeeze instead, it is much more modern, and still quite stable for production.

(edit): also, have a look at what tff fonts you have installed on Debian in comparison to Ubuntu.

Regards.

**NightwishFan** · April 6th, 2010

You can fix the font rendering in System -> Preferences -> Appearence. I have found Debian to be similar to Ubuntu on a lot of counts. The correct word, as you said, is that it lacks polish. I agree with this. It is still a fantastic distribution though.