links for customizing GNOME menu

• Customizing Menus
• Desktop Menu Specification
• Placing Entries in the Applications Menu
• Themable Application-specific Icons
• Icon Theme Specification / Directory Layout
• Tango Icon Theme Guidelines (to make 24x24 icons from 22x22 ones)

libpng12.so.0 missing problem in Archlinux

Archlinux has been offering libpng14 recently, however if some self-compiled packages are used in the system, it may turn out an disaster :(

I had cario, freetype2 & libxft compiled from abs so as to enable sort of cleartype effect in type rendering, however, after I updated libpng recently from version 12 to 14, I cannot boot into gdm correctly. I cannot even run vim in a console for it complains that libpng12.so.0 cannot be found.

So I have to:

1. boot with run level 3 (adding 3 at the end of grub's kernel line);
2. login as root and remove self-compiled packages that require libpng12, cario, freetype2 & libxft in my case (I found -d option useful since I will soon reinstall these packages);
3. recompile new versions with libpng14;
4. install those packages.

Using English fonts in Windows 7 with Chinese local setting

Windows 7 comes with Lucida Console and Consolas as its default console fonts, but I find no option to enable either of them when my location is set to China. After a few tries, I managed to get them via the following steps:

1. Right click the console icon and go to the default menu item;
2. Set the default code page to '437 OEM';
3. Switch to the font tab, and change the font to Lucida Console, press OK button;
4. Restart the console and go to the code page setting back to '936 Chinese'.