Re: [g-i] fonts: a few thoughts
Hi Attilio,
At 4 Dec 05 09:52:24 GMT,
Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> > Well, when I integrated this font to gtk-miniiso, I found Japanese
> > characters are taken from three font files - FreeSansSerif, uming
> > (Chinese), and Sazanami (Japanese). It provides a strange face.
> >
> > To solve this, I think it's better to provide /.gtkrc-2.0 according to
> > chosen language.
> > After writing this file, screen refresh is needed.
> uhm.. i have to admit i never explicitly parsed a gtk runtime
> configuration file, but maybe it's better letting libfontconfig doing
> the most appropriate glyps selection.
> Letting libfontconfig handling glyphs selection won't require us to
> hardcore font-selection related code into gtk.c and also will bring
> benefits to other GTK apps that may be included into the g-i like
> gparted that xavier oswald is working on to integrate into the g-i.
> AFAIK some initial work has been already done to develope the tools
> needed to automatically remove from free-sans glyphs already provided by
> other "specialized" fonts.
> I don't know if work has been done/planned to remove overlapping glyphs
> from n-uples of specialized fonts (ex: the Japanese glyphs that are
> provided by FreeSansSerif, uming(Chinese), and Sazanami (Japanese) ).
I see. I agree it's better if we can do above doing.
> To test the new ttf-compact-fonts-udeb into the miniiso i've
>
> -removed x-fonts-whq.tgz from the tarballs directory (this is the
> tarball your udeb should replace, right?)
> -commented out ttf-freefont-udeb from "common" configuration file
> -added ttf-compact-fonts-udeb into "common" configuration
>
> and this is what i got (i guess latin fonts look ugly because of removal
> of freefont-sans)
>
> https://debian.polito.it/downloads/g-i_ttf-freefont-udeb_screenshots/
>
> do they look correct to you?
Yeah, that's right way.
I hope total size of shrinked CJK fonts = 1MB is acceptable for d-i GUI
system. :)
Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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