Hi Roland,

Roland Mainz wrote:
> 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.

Could you please describe in more detail what areas (applications?) are 
problematic, what locales have missing glyph issues etc.?

I think there are certainly font files that could be removed with little
or no impact. One thing I don't understand is why there are Vera* fonts 
while the DejaVu project builds on these.

Is there any document describing the planned [font] cuts?

Regards,
hnhn



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> Bye,
> Roland
> 

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