Jan Hnatek wrote: > 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? >
I'm waiting for a proposal from Moinak. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
