Re: Low memory hacks
- From: Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>
- To: Brian Nitz <Brian Nitz Sun COM>
- Cc: "Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>, desktop-devel-list gnome org, zuh iki fi
- Subject: Re: Low memory hacks
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:19:42 -0500
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
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