Re: GTK frontend update and maybe time for an experimental netinst cd?
> who can help us in choosing the right font packages? and who will build
> the corresponding udebs? (i suppose all the fonts you're mentioning are
> available as standrad .debpackage sonly, right?) maybe the same
> mantainers of the corresponding packages?
> Since size matters what kind of font should we use? vectorial
> (truetype,adobe type 1) or bitmapped?
I think we'll more easily find True Type fonts, but I may be wrong and
I'm not a font wizard.
Here is the current list of fonts on my system.
ttf-bangla-fonts install
ttf-bengali-fonts install
ttf-devanagari-fonts install
ttf-freefont install
ttf-gujarati-fonts install
ttf-indic-fonts install
ttf-kannada-fonts install
ttf-malayalam-fonts install
ttf-oriya-fonts install
ttf-punjabi-fonts install
ttf-tamil-fonts install
ttf-telugu-fonts install
Besides ttf-freefont, all these are needed for some Indic scripts
languages (which I don't read....I just want to be sure I can display them).
I have to admit that I have installed all of these rudely, without
taking care of which is nedded for what language. Many of these have
one of the Indic language names in their name, so I just can guess
that each is appropriate for one of these languages.
Anyway, debian-in-workers will help us here. Definitely.
So, folks, our goal is here to decide *which* fonts are actually
mandatory to display your languages.
Other fonts on my system:
x-ttcidfont-conf install
xfonts-100dpi install
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded install
xfonts-75dpi install
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded install
xfonts-base install
xfonts-base-transcoded install
xfonts-efont-unicode install
xfonts-efont-unicode-ib install
xfonts-intl-arabic install
xfonts-intl-asian install
xfonts-intl-chinese install
xfonts-intl-chinese-big install
xfonts-intl-european install
xfonts-intl-japanese install
xfonts-intl-japanese-big install
xfonts-intl-phonetic install
xfonts-konsole install
xfonts-scalable install
xfonts-thai-ttf deinstall
As soon as we decide which fonts we will need, then we need to get in
touch with the maintainer and ask him/her to create a udeb (through a
bug report.....but we might need to *help* maintainers with patches).
We have the ttf-freefont as a model so building patches for udeb
production should be easy.
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