On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 11:40 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Rodney Dawes > <rodney.da...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> 2) Would inline translations have any effect on the image size > >> compared to having the translations in a .mo? (More specifically for > >> the description bits as the question re: Names was already answered in > >> the other thread) > > > > Virtually no. As plain text, the .desktop file will compress extremely > > well, unlike the .mo files. There may be a slight increase of a few > > bytes, for a few apps, but I don't see it causing any issue with image > > size. > > I'm curious about this. While .mo message catalogues are a binary > fortmat, I would have thought the majority of their content would be > text (the english and translated versions of each string). I would > have thought these would compress to a similar degree as plain text.
While the string portions of the .mo files will compress fairly well, the rest of the file does not. It is still a binary file. There is a fair bit of extra metadata in the .mo itself, and in the strings section, which is not necessary to have in the .desktop files, as well. What I really meant is that the packages that contain the .desktop files will see only a small few bytes in change. The installed size will be a little larger than that, but still not big enough that it should have a real impact on the default image size, I don't think. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
