Re: Low memory hacks

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Brian Nitz wrote:
> >   Third, there's no such thing as
> > locale-specific fonts.  If a font happens to cover Chinese only, so be
> > it.  Finally, if you don't need those fonts, simply don't install them
> > (or uninstall them).  
> >   
> I know it doesn't make sense from a developer's point of view, but it 
> has been a request for end users, "We don't ever use (X language) fonts 
> in our  Hospital/Bank/University/Government Office, why are we 
> installing these fonts?"  It may be a distribution specific issue, but 
> it's probably an issue with nearly every distribution.

I think that there are very much two sides of the coin on this one.

1) Regular user's do _not_ like seeing Unicode boxes
2) Specific applications require running under specific conditions

Obviously, most distributions using GNOME are targeted at Case #1. 
That's probably okay, since it covers 95% of the users, and specific 
resource-tight projects can limit the number of fonts to suit their needs.

--Pat