On Sunday 27 November 2005 19:40, Christian Perrier wrote: > I have just uploaded in the archive a new version (1.1-2) of the > ttf-arabeyes package, initially maintained by Mohammed Elzubeir. As I've said before [1], I really think this is very nice, but possibly premature. The fonts currently used in the graphical installer are an initial selection made by someone without any knowledge of font management, the involved languages, their preferred fonts and a lot of other things (i.e. me). This has already been proven for Arabic by the comments from adn on IRC. They current selection was purely to be able to get a working installer at least having some support for all languages while at least somewhat limiting the amount of space used. The real work in this area starts now as detailed in the wiki [2]. I do not think I will be using this udeb in the daily builds for now as I'd rather keep the more flexible approach that is offered by the tarballs. People can easily play with these by using a local webserver for the tarballs and changing the location where fonts are downloaded from in the build configuration. I really hope a team of people will come forward after the announcement that will really attack this subject in a structured way. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/11/msg01161.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerGUIToDo
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