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
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