I recently built a barebones pdf viewer (with libmupdf as engine) on SDL3; native wayland works perfectly well in my testing, and libdecor takes care of the CSD on the windows just fine.

Not that my opinion is worth anything as a silly amateur, but one thing that *was* pretty frustrating with SDL is the formatting of the documentation in their wiki; and that the site index would take you to SDL2 functions if you weren't careful. I'm hoping that the documentation gets a better website after the SDL3 release.

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Quoting: MershlI've been using Inter on both desktop and notebook for 4 weeks now and I quite like it. I agree it would be a great successor to Cantarell. If you wanna give it a try and are on Fedora there's an package called `rsms-inter-fonts` (`inter-font` on Arch), afterwards set Interface, Document and Legacy Window Titles to `Inter Regular` in gnome-tweaks (size 11 is default).

Thanks; I should use the packaged version indeed, I currently have it installed manually.

One question: is there a way to set opentype features for Inter as UI font? I'd like to turn on the disambiguation set for 'I' & 'l' (ss02); though neither on gnome-tweaks, nor on dconf-editor, can I find a setting. I hope it's not like a compile-time parameter to Pango.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: wvstolzingSpeaking of GNOME (which I've gone back to using), I recently found out about this issue on the official gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/52 [External Link] — there seems to be a serious initiative to replace Cantarell as the UI font, with Inter. I really hope this gets carried through.

I pay little attention to fonts. What's the difference between the two?

On gitlab they mention missing glyphs in Cantarell; though that isn't its worst shortcoming, IMHO. The kerning just seems off, and in various combinations, the 'a's, 'e's, and 'l's look as though they're slightly shifted to the left or right; which all result in a jarring, uneven look. There are no italics; and I believe the bold version is missing even more glyphs. Overall it looks amateurish; which isn't surprising, as it was originally designed for a university course assignment, and later fixed up a little to become GNOME's ui font.

Inter's glyphs look a bit too square-ish, I think; but at least they're perfectly consistent; so you don't get the occasional lumpy look. I think elementary os uses it for their UI; it's also becoming popular on webpages -- see, e.g., https://forgejo.org/ [External Link]

Either Noto Sans or Inter would make a better ui font for GNOME, I think -- or even IBM Plex Sans.

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Speaking of GNOME (which I've gone back to using), I recently found out about this issue on the official gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/52 [External Link] — there seems to be a serious initiative to replace Cantarell as the UI font, with Inter. I really hope this gets carried through.

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I have a profoundly insightful contribution to make to the discussion:

I think something like 'Who’s at the door? ... Canonicals snap store' would rhyme better.

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Quoting: Fourteen00They actually give you a discount if you own other games in the bundle. I was only missing 5 games so it was only 6 USD. Good deal. Too bad it doesn't include the DVD with all the behind the scenes videos and concept art like the physical collection had but this is a good start.

I don't know what's in those DVDs; but on youtube I've seen a couple of behind the scenes videos & interviews featuring the fellow who plays Kane -- and he's hilarious; incredibly goofy.

I'm tempted to get the original C&C ... we used to hold little 'lan parties' at my buddy's house to play that one & Duke Nukem 3D.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: wvstolzingSo this is probably called 'Omega', due to the final 'choice in the Atlas Path Mission' that they say they've added -- though I wonder if it's also the final update for the game itself.

1:17 in the trailer, top left corner, "More Will Follow".

Ah, great; I skimmed the site, but didn't watch the trailer.

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So this is probably called 'Omega', due to the final 'choice in the Atlas Path Mission' that they say they've added -- though I wonder if it's also the final update for the game itself.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumTerrible at poker, huh? :huh:

It's a bluff, obviously.

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I'm putting up a local mirror for this *right now* --- hopefully it will be done cloning before Nintendo sends in a cease & desist.

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