Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: GTK frontend update and maybe time for an experimental netinst cd?
On 9/12/05, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> >>i've noticed that in Anaconda, every time i change the installation
> >>languge, cdrom is accessed and some more megs of memory occupied: this
> >>because the new font is loaded from cd while other ones are kept in memory.
> >>I think that we should retrive font packages from cdrom only for the
> >>used language while removing the unneded ones: do we already a
> >>technology that is capable of doing this task?
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, actually, because localechooser displays languge names not only
> > in English but also in the various languages, we actually need all
> > fonts for it. Well, if that happens to be a problem, we can revert
> > this back but such feature is here since woody installer, so, it would
> > be a serious step back.
>
> I understand this but we're now no longer able to GTK-boot a pc with
> only 64 megs of ram even if we use only latin fonts.
> Imagine what if we include ALL the fonts on the cd and those fonts have
> to be unpacked all togheter (example: ttf-arphic-uming for chinese, as
> suggested on this ml)
What about a realy special font that contains _only_ the glyphs
necessary to display all the countries' names?
Then load the font, when necessary into the RAM, from the CD?
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Regards,
EddyP
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