This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!

The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.

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و اخيرا استمع الى لم تكن تلك حكايتي

انا باحبك يا مصطفى

النهارده وصلني بعد الضهر كتاب رحاب, أرز باللبن لشخصين. لا و انا اللي الصبح كنت لسه باقولها عايز نسجه موقعه لما انزل اجازه!!

لا و انا اللي لسه عامل معاه حركة ندالة من يومين!! بجد اودي وشي فين:-(

طب ماحدش عايز يبعتلي عايزه اتجوز بمناسبة اني عايز اتجوز برضو ؟ :-)

Thanks to those 2 comments. Although placing Xft.dpi: 96 in my ~/.Xdefaults did not help, but I managed to do it through the appearance control center applet. I had to purge the gtk-qt theme engine because it was freezing the dialog and setting it via gconf-editor didn't work as expected.

I had to fight with my fonts this morning but here's my configuration. Maybe it'll be useful to anyone:
DejaVu sans book 12
96 DPI
greyscale smoothing, subpixel slight RGB.

I'm not yet satisfied but it's more usable now.

Thanks Phaeronix for the help too.

I have 2 laptops. My personal one at home and my work one at the office. Both are running testing. A month or two ago, I did a dist-upgrade on the home one. Later on I rebooted (DUH!) it for a reason I can't remember just to end up with very tiny fonts under GNOME. It took me some time to tweak them back again and play with the GNOME anti-aliasing dialog. Now if you know me well, you know that the last thing someone should do to me is to touch my font settings. I have a very sensitive eye (Because I have a very low vision) and I hardly tweak the fonts. All went somehow fine after that. Problem is I wasn't sure whether it was fglrx or GNOME who's responsible for that.

Me: Benazir is running for the elections
Qsm: But Musharraf will stay anyway.
Me: You are probably right because you are Pakistani but how can it happen ?
Qsm: Musharraf will stay.

Now he's right although I didn't really believe him.

God bless her soul.

Christian, Here's a KDE pink color scheme.
Hope it's useful. I'm not a KDE user.

Now I remembered when I was lost in CDG airport. The only person I found to ask spoke french. I was asking her in English, she was replying in french.

After missing the Paris Helsinki flight:
"Here's your new ticket. But you will have to go out and re-check in again. I can't give you the boarding card as the other flight is using a different system." And also: "Tell them about your luggage when you check in so it will be with you on the same flight".
-- Air france customer care, Charles de gaulle airport.

Of course the bags arrived next day. What do you think ? The people working in Charles de gaulle can not give up their habits of delaying your bags.

* هو لسه الناس بتقف في المطار بيفط و تنادي على الناس ؟
* هو الجو حر ؟
* يا سواق يا حمار