Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?
Hi,
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
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> Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28 18:09:51)
> > Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2020-03-28):
> > > Hey folks,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > >Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2020-03-27):
> > > >>
> > > >> So, what's the opinion of the team: is there any interest to move to
> > > >> fonts-noto?
> > > >
> > > >Besides the first topic you mentioned, and the idea of putting all our
> > > >eggs in the same basket (possibly meaning less maintenance for us,
> > > >and/or maybe more pressure on the maintainers of a newly-critical
> > > >component), the big question is what users will think of the changes.
> > > >
> > > >I suppose the best way to approach this would be to ask e.g. translators
> > > >for each language to compare the rendering before/after, and have them
> > > >tell us what they think (maybe by setting up a poll). I suspect this
> > > >might be a rather time consuming task…
> > >
> > > Maybe just do it, and announce it as a big change for the next alpha
> > > release?
> >
> > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for
> > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think
> > that'd be a sensible approach (at least that's what I had in mind).
> >
> > Gathering the results and drawing a conclusion is what worries me a
> > little.
>
> I understand your concern, and I agree that it makes sense to check with
> native speakers of the languages involved.
>
> My worry was how to make it easy to compare, and I think Holgers image
> can help with that (I still need to fumble with it to see how best to
> use it).
>
> If I get something working, I will try share it with Debian friends in
> India to try get a feel for how it might be sensible to proceed more
> generally. Or maybe I will simply take it one locale at a time, get in
> touch with each, and have them help evaluate, just as you suggest :-)
I would have created various screenshots, from the original and the new
installer screens. However, if you are volunteering for that... ;-))
Contacting active translators seems the less problematic part, however we
have several languages with no active translators currently.
Those will probably become the more critical parts to evaluate, especially
if it comes to non-latin scripts...
Holger
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