[g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-21 Thread Davide Viti
Dejavu 2.7 has made it into unstable and things are happening on the font side. I just created a new set of screenshots in [1]; everything is pretty much the best we can do atm, apart from Arabic / Farsi (see #374720) It would be interesting to have some feedback from native speakers; I'd be partic

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:14:51AM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Russian (ru) looks very good. great. > ... > That is just a tiny cosmetical issue, nothing important. thanx for reporting; now that we found a set of fonts to display all the supported languages, it's important to know what shoul

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
> Bengali [2] doesn't look 100% okay. Conjuncts are not rendering properly. we use freefont to display Bengali; quite a few Indic languages are now supported from freefont now. We used Mukti in the past and also had positive feedback with freefont; if you think using Mukti would be more appropri

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Eugeniy, On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:18:49AM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Hi, > > 22 червня 2006 о 03:01 +0200 Davide Viti написав(-ла): > > It would be interesting to have some feedback from native speakers; > It looks good for Ukrainian (except bad glyphs for б t

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:56:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, mor ethan screenshots, it would be really good to test a real > install with a mini ISO image. Going up to the partitioning stage can > be done on any machine safely as the installer is not destructive > before it writes down

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:20:04PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hebrew looks fine. Thanks. that's freefont: cool. I take advantage of the situation... there are 31 (minor) errors in l1 translations for Hebrew [1] spotted by the spellchecker: could you please fix those or let us know if are falso po

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:33:16AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: > Yes, freefont has Bengali support. You sent us these [2], [3], [4] > screenshots using freefonts [8] - which had no rendering problems at > all. ah! > Currently I am using it [9] in Dapper - no rendering problem. > > Which version ar

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-24 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Jamil, On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:46:45PM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: > >> Which version are you using? > > > >Version: 20060501cvs-2 > >we use the udeb where many glyphs were removed for reducing memory > >footprint > > By anychance did you remove the glyphs of conjunts? :-) I replaced the st

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-24 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:16:03PM -0700, Damodharan Rajalingam wrote: > Tamil characters are not shown properly :-(. What is the font used for Tamil > (ta)? TSCu_Paranar contained in ttf-tamil-fonts. What is wrong with it? Can you suggest any alternatives? Davide signature.asc Description:

Re: ttf-dejavu 2.7-2

2006-06-24 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:29:19AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Built, checked and uploaded today. > > Thanks a lot for your reactivity and very active maintenance of > ttf-dejavu, Peter. Thanx alot to both of you guys! I'm really glad about dejavu being the default font for g-i: * quality

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-24 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:01:14AM -0700, Damodharan Rajalingam wrote: > Hmm.. TSCu_Paranar is the font which I use in my Debian box and dont > have any problem with it. Also there was a screenshot sent when Tamil > was announced a supported language. The tamil font rendering in that > screenshot

Re: New cairo + cairo-directfb 1.1.10 experimental debs

2006-06-25 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Dave, On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:23:38AM -0700, Dave Beckett wrote: > I've just uploaded cairo 1.1.10 experimental debs to: > http://download.dajobe.org/debian/experimental/ > > This should include all the fixes Frans and others mentioned and needed > for the graphical installer build with g

Bug#375402: g-i: weird touchpad behavior

2006-06-25 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:03:56PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb > Version: 0.103 > > I've tried g-i on my laptop which has an Alps touchpad. The frontend does > respond to the touchpad, but not correctly. > > When you first touch the touchpad, the cursor "jumps" to a posi

Re: New cairo + cairo-directfb 1.1.10 experimental debs

2006-06-26 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Josselin, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:13:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Finally, here are the gtk+directfb packages: > http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/ I started testing libgtk+2.0-directfb0-udeb_2.8.18-3_i386.udeb and got two problems: - dependency on libtiff4 - dependency in l

Re: New cairo + cairo-directfb 1.1.10 experimental debs

2006-06-26 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:29:45AM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > I started testing libgtk+2.0-directfb0-udeb_2.8.18-3_i386.udeb > and got two problems: > > - dependency on libtiff4 > - dependency in libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2) now everything seems to work fine! both the udeb an

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-06-26 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Jamil, On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:57:06PM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: > Yes there are differences. Please check it, I have marked some problems: > http://www.ankurbangla.org/images/di_bn_problem.png I rebuilt a version of the freefont udeb which comments the following # if ! echo $1 | grep -q B

Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-07-01 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Junichi sent this to d-devel, but I feel it's relevant for d-boot too :-) thanx, I got a Macbook today and I'm trying to install Debian on it First experience ever with an Apple product, so I have no background with tools / problems >

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

2006-07-02 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Jamil, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:29:55AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: > >I also took a screenshot [1]; if you think it's fine I'll file a bug > >against freefont and hide from Christian :) > > Yes, now it looks okay! Btw, it will be better if you can make the > font size little bigger. :-) Just

Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-07-02 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Junichi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:47:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > could you please give more details about this? > > # apt-get install refit (when it enters past the NEW queue) > # gptsync /dev/sda ok, so first I need to partition the disk on osx and then install refit inside debia

Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-07-03 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:47:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Current work around is to reboot into rEFIt and run gptsync, and > > > then run d-i from CDROM, and then configure the bootloader. > > > > > > > could you please give more details about this? > > # apt-get install refit (w

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [directfb-dev] FW: G-I - Test results for mini.iso based on 2.8.18 libs]

2006-07-03 Thread Davide Viti
- Forwarded message from Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:12:39 -0700 To: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: directfb-dev Subject: Re: [directfb-dev] FW: G-I - Test results for mini.iso based on 2.8.18

Re: Plans for GTK+ - update

2006-07-04 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:42:55AM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > the only thing which needs building, AIUI is cdebconf(-gtk). The > rest are already ok. yes, cdebconf-gtk needs the patch below. The other package which needs to be changed is rootskel-gtk where src/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders h

Dejavu fonts: call for testing

2006-07-05 Thread Davide Viti
As many of you probably know, dejavu fonts have been chosen as default font for the graphical version of the debian-intaller (g-i); this means that 48 of the 64 currently supported languages rely on dejavu fonts for rendering text. I've started lurking the dejavu IRC channel and mailing list and g

Re: Dejavu fonts: call for testing

2006-07-06 Thread Davide Viti
>I would also wait starting a new request for testing until there is really >something new to test (last test only just finished after all) and >providing more specific instructions to testers what to look for and how >to report issues. I haven't updated the screenshots yet; I wanted to wait u

Re: G-I - Test results for mini.iso based on 2.8.18 libs

2006-07-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:51:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > * Weird blue lines between choices when cursor is moved (see [1]) > These blue lines appear and disappear rather randomly when I move the > cursor over the list. > ... > [1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/g-i_2.8.18_display-weirdness.

Re: Re: Dejavu fonts: call for testing

2006-07-12 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Aiet, On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:53:06PM +0400, Aiet Kolkhi wrote: > The Georgian fonts in the udeb package are under GPL, so we could > replace the Georgian portion of Dejavu with the one from Georgian udeb > packae (BPG Glaho being the best font). Some people are working on Georgian glyphs w

Please fix translation errors

2006-07-16 Thread Davide Viti
ATM there are 30+55 errors (suspect variables + level specific errors) in level1 translations (see [1]). Languages currently affected: +---+--+-+ | lang | susp | spec| +---+--+-+ | bn| | x | | bs| | x | | eo| x| | | fa| x| x | |

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu fonts 2.8 released]

2006-07-16 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:25:17 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu fonts 2.8 released Hi all,

Re: Please fix translation errors

2006-07-16 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:58:32PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > I've just fixed the single suspect for pt_BR, which in fact was really an > error. > > Thanks for giving a notice :-) thanx for fixing it. Your changes will be reflected on the spellchecker page tomorrow around 11 UTC. ciao, Da

Re: Please fix translation errors

2006-07-16 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 05:54:47PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | eo| x| | > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/packages/partman/partman-lvm/debian/po/eo.po > the right partman-lvm.templates file? I downloaded the >

Bug#378521: installation-report: installed system is not working

2006-07-17 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:39:00AM +0200, Manfred Richter wrote: > During installation a driver for the ethernet, called sky2, is used. > After installation this driver is not longer present. I had the very same problem when trying to install Debian on my Macbook (which needs the sky2 module as we

Bug#382278: Window title gets cut-off with newt frontend

2006-08-09 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.104+b1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The problem is easily reproducible on a few languages when running kbd-chooser; the patch below seems to fix the problem. Haven't found the exact reason, but looks like the largest number of padding characters has to be used when com

Bug#317354: red error screen has blue info bar

2006-08-09 Thread Davide Viti
tags 317354 + patch thanks On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:19:12PM +0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Subject says it all, errors display with a blue info bar at the bottom, > should be red. The patch belows set the helpline bg colour to red, and the fg colour to white (see [1]) regards, Davide [1] http://ww

Bug#224682: truncated elilo-installer menu entry

2006-08-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:35:57PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > The elilo installer main-menu entry is truncated when displayed. > The text appears as "Install elilo on a hard dis", when it should be > "Install elilo on a hard disk". I just filed #382278 which seems to track down the same problem;

Re: [G-I] Switch to GTK+ 2.8 libraries in daily builds done

2006-08-16 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:37:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Initial tests have revealed that we still have some issues to solve before > Etch is released though: > - blue lines appear when mouse is moved over select dialogs [1] The bug was reported upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cg

Bug#382697: kbd-chooser: Greek keyboard layout selection fails

2006-08-20 Thread Davide Viti
tags 382697 + patch thanks On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:24:26PM +0300, Nick Niktaris wrote: > Package: kbd-chooser > Severity: important > Tags: l10n > > > While trying netinst.iso etch beta 3 I found that during installation > selection of the Greek keyboard fails, > the installer can not contin

Bug#382697: kbd-chooser: Greek keyboard layout selection fails (Patch #2)

2006-08-21 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:00:05PM -0500, Christian Perrier wrote: > Please commit it. Just to make sure no other charsets are left out at compile time, I searched for the list of charsets explicitely mentioned: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> find /usr/share/keymaps/ -name *.gz -exec zgrep -w charset {} \; |

Re: installation-reports : french keymap problem with etch netinst

2006-08-21 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:15:48PM +0200, Jerome Lemaire wrote: > Christian Perrier a écrit : > >This is VERY likely to be the problem I already reported and which we > >are aware of when using the graphical installer. This is pretty The bug you're referring to is #339352 which I closed a few day

Bug#247260: (no subject)

2006-08-21 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0200, Holger Hoffmann wrote: > Comments/Problems: > The installer is (almost) perfect! Didn't use Debian 'til yesterday > because installing was a hassle. > Minor problem: I selected German as installation language, while the > umlaute (ä& etc.) showed up corre

Bug#382697: kbd-chooser: Greek keyboard layout selection fails (Patch #2)

2006-08-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:11:37PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > It is, by definition, a bit more invasive and it would be better if > > someone with all the skills in keyboard/console stuff (such as > > Alastair, Denis, Eugen) looks at it. > > > > I suggest committing the first patch (w

Bug#379789: wrong keymap on Intel MacBook Pro

2006-08-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:11:45PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > (1) During installation, on the screen "Benutzer und Passwörter" I > > tried to enter an umlaut (namely Rüdiger). The Umlaut showed as > > something else (I think it was ), and could not be removed. > > Neither nor the left arrow key

Bug#384395: non-ascii chars broken on VT2

2006-08-23 Thread Davide Viti
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 1.30 Tags: l10n non-ascii chars can now be entered in input boxes (tried it with the newt frontend); it does now not work on VT2: tested after selecting Italian language / Keyboard. enabling utf-8 via the following command fixes the problem: echo -ne "\033%G" See

Bug#384391: Input line is broken when entering non-ascii chars [newt frontend]

2006-08-23 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.105 Severity: minor Input of non-ascii characters does work now; only problem is that when you enter a non-ascii char, the input line is broken on the right border. Hitting ^L does not redraw and fix the problem. The following image shows it: http://www.webalice.it/z

Re: Bug#384475: graphical-installer: No shortcut for screenshot available

2006-08-24 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:10:19PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > reassign 384475 cdebconf-gtk > > thanks > > > > Quoting Jens Seidel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > the graphical Debian Installer provides a Screenshot button but I'm >

Bug#384395: non-ascii chars broken on VT2

2006-08-24 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:08:38AM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > I'm sure Frans was meant to fix it with the upload of version 1.30: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/08/msg01034.html I just remembered the fix for VT2 is contained in rootskel which was uploaded alon

Please hint ttf-dejavu

2008-09-05 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, please let ttf-dejavu 2.25-3 migrate to testing. This version introduces the new ttf-dejavu-mono-udeb udeb needed for having a shell in the graphical installer. Thanx in advance, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.21 released]

2007-10-29 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide PS: Debian package will (hopefully) follow soon - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:28:22 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.21)

2007-11-05 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, new screenshots using dejavu 2.21 are available at [1] ; there are no differences with older version of the package. Details about the content of the newer version of dejavu can be found in [2]. Regards, Davide [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots [2] http://dejavu.source

Please hint ttf-dejavu into testing

2007-11-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, could you please hint current version of ttf-dejavu (2.21-1) into testing? the package provides also an udeb used by the graphical installer. TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [directfb-users] porting etch graphic installer to mips/lemote

2007-11-14 Thread Davide Viti
rtially), support for mips > would be great! > >> == Crash problem when dfbinfo is running in chroot jail. >> But it works fine without a chroot. >> -- >> /dev# /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/bin/dfbinfo > > > > Unfort

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.22 released]

2007-12-09 Thread Davide Viti
FYI regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:33:06 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.22 released Hi all, Today we bring you the 2.22

Bug#415127: Please retest g-i on Intel MacBook using recent daily builds

2007-12-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:57:27AM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > Daily builds [1] are now based on linux>=2.6.22 and DirectFB 1.0, so could > please someone recheck wheter this bug, which was reported at the times of > linux 2.6.18 and DirectFB 0.9.25, is gone or still persists? > I first

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:40:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I assume this was because the glyphs needed are not in freefont? > > Yes. The Ethiopic Unicode Bloc: U+1200-U+1399 just checked and the above range is not in Freefont and Dejavu either > > Are there any overlaps with the free

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > I've prepared a pdf file [1] with all the glyphs provided by the font. > > regards, > Davide > > [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-sil-abyssinica.pdf ...and here some screenshots using the font

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:14:19AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > which size should we use inside g-i? > > default fontsize is 9pt but some languages were set at bigger size > > I think that it would be bette

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Frans, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:35:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I forget why we still have dejavu. Davide: what are the chances of getting > rid of that? ttf-dejavu has been the default font used in g-i for awhile now, so if the question is why we still have freefont, that's because it's

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Davide Viti wrote: > However, I would expect that for other fonts just using the freefont Latin > range would produce perfectly good results (provided the sizing is > comparable) and especia

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-08 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Christian, On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:00:44PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > The udeb size goes from 220768 bytes to 183090 bytes > > > > Impressive! > > > Im waiting for some ACK by others to propose the strip patch to the > font main

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Eddy, On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:39:13PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > Why not do an automatic strip of the font and only *keep* the > codepoints that are used, based on the existing translations? I know > this could be too drastic and we run into the risk of loosing glyphs > if we are not doi

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:29:51AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Especially with Christian's comment that we display a fair number of strings > that are not even in D-I SVN, this whole idea gets a huge NACK from me as > it is. and in the input forms you can type unpredictable chars signature.asc

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Debian Installer: Amharic screenshots]

2008-01-15 Thread Davide Viti
Just noticed the list was not CC'ed regards, Davide - Forwarded message from TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:50:02 +0800 To: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Debian Installer: Amharic screenshots Hi

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-15 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just reported a bug against ttf-sil-abyssinica source package, with > an attached patch, to propose stripping out the Latin range in the > udeb. I've created a test image

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?]

2008-01-16 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, Davide - Forwarded message from TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:07:41 +0800 To: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer? I have not had the chance t

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-16 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:01:49PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > With a good image there are differences (the latin characters look > > "thinner"). It should be up to the translators to decide. > > The most significant difference is probably in punc

Please unblock ttf-dejavu 2.23-1

2008-02-03 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, it would be great if you could unblock ttf-dejavu 2.23-1 which fixes an important issue [1]. Thanx alot in advance, Davide [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200712191257.59357.benlaenen%40gmail.com&forum_name=dejavu-fonts signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: Bug#466194: ttf-cjk-compact-udeb: Some Korean glyphs missing

2008-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:20:47AM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > 2008-02-17 (일), 23:35 +0900, Kenshi Muto: > > > > I found some Hangul glyphs are missing during "expertgui" installation, > > > with sid d-i 16-Feb-2008. Mojibakes seemed to happen on revised > > > translations. > > > > > I won

ttf-dejavu 2.24-2

2008-04-01 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, this version fixes #471024 which affects the graphical installer: please unblock it. TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#384395: closed by Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#384395: non-ascii chars broken on VT2)

2006-08-26 Thread Davide Viti
> From my tests, this is fixed. it is indeed. regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing elilo on MacMiniIntel fails

2006-09-02 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 03:55:34PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > System Information > > Please provide me the BIOS section. here's a full log of my macbook http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/macbook/macbook_dmidecode.log regards, Davide signatur

Re: Installing elilo on MacMiniIntel fails

2006-09-02 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:29:34PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Please provide me the BIOS section. > > > > here's a full log of my macbook > > Does your macbook has the bootcamp upgraded firmware? I install

[g-i] Help with Czech/Slovak and Korean

2006-09-03 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, bugs #368300 and #368329 affect Czech/Slovak and Korean respectively. Since the bugs were filed there were big changes in g-i: * new libraries made it into the Debian archives * ttf-cjk-compact-udeb (1.5) was recently uploaded It'd be excellent if native speakers could help reproducing the a

Re: [g-i] Help with Czech/Slovak and Korean

2006-09-03 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:56:10PM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:53:17PM +0200, Peter Mann wrote: > > > > i just test Slovak messages with recent mini.iso ... 11.714.560 bytes > > md5sum: 580d73f212614a229b7ad8a7d59d7850 > > > > i made screenshots with wrong letters ..

[g-i] patch for the lines problem

2006-09-10 Thread Davide Viti
A bit of history: a problem [1] with Italic letters near the borders which was fixed upstream; the fix caused some problems which can be seen in [2] and was noticed when g-i switched to the 2.8.x set of libraries. Upstream version of gtk+ is currently 2.10.3, and according to Mike Emmel, upstream

Re: [g-i] patch for the lines problem

2006-09-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:00:08 +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > 2. revert the patch needed to fix [1] > this would involve a new upload of gtk+2.0, which should include a patch > to fix the problem with horizontal/vertical lines. > I tested and prepared a patch which fixes the pro

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-11 Thread Davide Viti
I've taken some screenshots as it was done a while ago (see [1]) hoping that your comments can help improving fonts quality for Debian and in particular for the new graphical installer. Since the last survey, this is the list of major changes: * graphic libraries have been updated * default fon

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-11 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > * #374902 was fixed with a new upload of libfreetype6-udeb_2.2.1-4_i386.udeb libfreetype6-udeb_2.2.1-4 > > the screenshots can be found in [2], and in case you wanted to compare them > to the > previous, see [3] &

Re: [g-i] patch for the lines problem

2006-09-11 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > tag 386860 + pending confirmed upstream > stop > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006, Davide Viti wrote: > > the decision has to be made by the gnome team, responsable also of the > > udebs used with g-i. Don't

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-11 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Lior, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > Hebrew looks fine. thanks. good; Hebrew is still using glyphs out of freefont. Hebrew glyphs have just been included in dejavu: any chance you can give some feedback about it? I'll try to get some screenshots to comp

Re: I met some issue for Daily Etch installer [i18n][.jp]

2006-09-13 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:40:10 +0200, Yukiharu Yabuki wrote: > It is a possiblity that missing glyph issue : > (2) font data does not have glyph that's right: the rectangles show which glyphs are missing in the font file looking at [1] shows that the following glyph is missing it's used 2 ti

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-13 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:17:35PM +0200, G Karunakar wrote: > Hindi looks fine in this screenshot.. but i found some other issues - > eg the top part of Hindi string above the base line (from which > character seem to hang) is not appearing in the text just below the > logo banner, in the install

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-13 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Eddy, On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:37:22PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > The font size is different in the screenshots and, thus I can't tell > if the "half of breve" issue has gone. but does the latest version of the screenshot look ok for Romanian? ciao, Davide signature.asc Description: Di

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:14:21AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > BTW, I hope the issue "Subject: I met some issue for Daily Etch installer" > raised by Yukiharu is already solved by my last upload of cjkfont. AFAICT it is fine; see http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/09/msg00431.html I've also

Bug#387470: debian-installer: needs an possibility to load a full font for g-i

2006-09-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:54:02PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > If new message has an new character, graphical-installer will > show a broken character or just miss it. > I believe graphical-installer has to load "full" font file at > least before running tasksel. I see your point, but most font fi

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.10 released]

2006-09-17 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, Davide - Forwarded message from Denis Jacquerye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Denis Jacquerye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:09:45 +0200 To: DejaVu-Fonts mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.10 released DejaVu fonts 2.10 has been relea

Re: [g-i] Am I crazy or has linehight increased dramatically recently?

2006-09-18 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:53:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Hmm, I was under the impresion that the vertical line should have been > > fixed at the same time as horizontal issue was fixed. > > Well, as the horizontal one is not yet fixed either that impression is > probably correct ;-) both f

Re: [g-i] Am I crazy or has linehight increased dramatically recently?

2006-09-18 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:25:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Well, let's assume for now that I am not crazy. > > If I run g-i in vmware, I get this: > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/g-i_lineheight-and-ugly-font.png > > That is almost double lineheight between choices! Also, does the font look

Re: [Fwd: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.10 released]]

2006-09-20 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:32:21PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Can an updated round of d-i screen shots be taken when d-i will use 2.10 > instead of 2.09 ? I just did it; see [1] any chance you can test how Hebrew looks like with dejavu? ATM g-i uses freefont for Hebrew. regards, Davide PS: I i

Re: Bug#381979: keymap not changed in g-i after selection in kbd-chooser

2006-09-21 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:04:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 23:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > I did not test this by myself, but davide did it and the patch proved > > to work (Davide, any hint about how to reproduce a correct keymap > > change in the g-i ?). > > Da

[g-i] arm port

2006-10-09 Thread Davide Viti
Last week, after reading [1], I wanted to see how hard it'd be to port the graphical installer on arm. I set up a sid VM and checked out a copy of the d-i build environment as described in [2] I then created a patch ([3]) based on the existing g-i build environments and tried to compile which took

Re: Bug#385026: Possible workaround to this bug

2006-10-12 Thread Davide Viti
> BTW, if you need the highcontrast engine as well, it should be possible > now Loïc is building a gtk2-engines-udeb package. I've just built a g-i mini.iso [1] containing the udeb created by Loïc [2] In case anyone wanted to try and rebuild it here's what I've done: * copy gtk2-engines-udeb_2.

Re: Bug#394140: installation-reports: missing Chinese glyphs in GTK installer

2006-10-20 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:35:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The Chinese (both simplified and traditional) display in the GTK > > installer is completely broken. Many glyphs are missing, and shown > > just as boxes with the unicode number in it. This can be easily seen > > in the "Choose Langua

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.11 released]

2006-10-22 Thread Davide Viti
FYI regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:06:32 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.11 released DejaVu F

Bug#394455: installation-report: almost OK , ethernet glitch, translations

2006-10-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:22:59PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > During configurations of LVM , one template was not translated to Italian, > and another one had a meaningless translation > (starting as "Prima di poter configurare LVM possa, " ) > thanx for spotting that, I just committed a version

Bug#394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9)

2006-10-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:51:51PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > With latest debian-installer netinst iso (20061023), I could not > manage to get dead keys work to type accents (especially "ô") in the > user name, before entering the login. > I tried other dead keys without any success. > > I was

Bug#394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9)

2006-10-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:14:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > can you enter those using non-graphical installer or, if using g-i, when you > > switch to VT2 (ctrl-alt-f2)? > > I'm running amd64 so switching to another VT does not work. I'm going to > test with the non-graphical installer. I

Bug#394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9)

2006-10-24 Thread Davide Viti
>Whenever you change something, you regenerate th udeb then the mini iso >and boot it, right? yes FYI, I sent a message to the directfb ML: http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2006-October/002394.html regards, Davide Naviga e telefona senza limiti con Tiscali Scopri le promoz

Bug#394615: graphical installer fail on intel i810 chipset

2006-10-25 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:13:11PM +0200, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: > Attilio Fiandrotti à écrit : > I gave a try and there is some improvement : > > FYI, wget in busybox doesn't support --no-check-certificate, but I > managed to get your fb.modes file. > > After : > # export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt >

Bug#395227: busybox: deletion of non-latin chars

2006-10-25 Thread Davide Viti
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-3 Severity: minor insertion of non-latin chars is properly handled but backspace treats each of those as two characters; if you enter for example "è" and press "backspace" twice, you'll "eat" part of the prompt... if you enter the same character ten times you'll b

Bug#394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9)

2006-10-25 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:27:52PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2006-October/002394.html > > OK. Does it give clues? I'm not really skilled in this field. not much since I'm not very skilled in this either > BTW, I was told not being able to s

Bug#395257: [g-i] keymap change works only once

2006-10-25 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Severity: normal Keymap selection under g-i works once and if you try to change it it will not work; switching to text consle all changes have effect. I tried to select Italian keymap and everything looks ok; if I change the keymap to "American English" nothing changes;

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