Even though java is supposed to have good cross-platform support and super awesome in every way, OpenJDK in Fedora 13 does not support Japanese fonts out of the box. It was pretty easy to fix. All you have to do is install the sazanami fonts and save this file as /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/fontconfig.Fedora.properties. Below is a screenshot of CGoBan3 with kanji working.
This seems to just be a case of an old config not updated, nothing more. So hopefully this will be fixed soon.
So i decided i should test the new Firefox with the infamous tag candy extension. I got a test version from Aza Raskins site, and booted it up. In the start it looks like the ordinary Firefox, until you press ctrl + space. Then you enter something like Expo for Compiz in Firefox. And with a few tabs, you can get it to look something like this:
What can i say? It looks pretty sweet, but it's just a new way of arranging tabs. For the windows user or perhaps the mac user witch, lets face it, doesn't really have good window managers for heavy multitasking, this might be a good turn of events. But for the rest of us, opening 2 or more browser windows would do just about the same trick, and would probably save us a click. Also, 30 tabs? Who can honestly say they need that? IMO Bookmarks will do just as good, and save space.
There are other big ideas for this platform, but i feel a lot of them are to big to be implemented on top of Firefox. And a lot of these ideas requires a lot of other functionality (like coop mode needs chat of some sort) to really make it worth while. Perhaps we are looking at a new WM for Linux? Or perhaps gnome-shell will take up on some of the ideas. But overall, i think this idea is for the windows/mac user who can't organize his or her own workspace.