Dave Miner wrote: [snip] > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Dave Miner wrote: [snip] > An interesting set of options, I'm open to any of them and we can figure > out how to test some of them out. My main observation is that we appear > to be shipping a lot more fonts (not all of which come from > FSWxorg-fonts, I'm sure) than either of the Linux distros examined > (xlsfonts reports around 5200 for OpenSolaris, 2600-3000 for them, > corresponding file system area on Ubuntu is about 40% smaller). Can we > remove some with minimal impact on user experience? I'm not the expert > here, so you guys tell me what makes the most sense.
I wouldn't recommend removing fonts. Indiana already has a big problem because it lacks many many of the commercial fonts shipped with Solaris making the "font experience" of users not very good (compared to what ships to a full install of Solaris 10) and some locales have real problems because glyphs are missing. IMO we _urgendly_ need more fonts installed by default and not less. For the space issue there may be several options: 1. Use better font compression (e.g. *.bz2 vs. *.gz) as discussed in this thread (or none if we use LOFI compression, see item [4] below) 2. Combine some of the bitmap (BDF/PCF) fonts into TrueType wrappers 3. Teach the Xserver font code to do bitmap font re-encoding itself (currently Xorg ships one *-iso10646-1 font re-encoded for each of the *-iso8859-* encoding). This isn't much since the matching re-encoded fonts usually only contain up to 256 glyphs but it's still some space used-up 4. Assuming we use LOFI compression one option may be to re-order the listing of the font files in a way that the re-encoded fonts come directly after the *-iso10646-1 master font. Since the glyphs in the re-encoded fonts are repeated in the *-iso10646-1 master fonts the compression will catch this and reduce the re-encoded fonts to dust. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
