Re: Low memory hacks

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 14:33 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: BTW being able to render Chinese just fine if a friend of mine happens to want to check a Chinese web site on my laptop sounds like a useful issue to me, even if I'm sacrificing 10MB of my harddisk for it. You don't have to be Chinese;

Re: Low memory hacks

2008-03-04 Thread Brian Nitz
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:05 +, 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

Re: Low memory hacks

2008-03-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:32 +, Brian Nitz wrote: But if a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it should have an off switch. No. If a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it's a bug and should be fixed. Your comments and a

Re: Low memory hacks

2008-03-04 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:41 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:32 +, Brian Nitz wrote: But if a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it should have an off switch. No. If a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes

Re: communication/information between forward-looking projects [was Re: Some info (Ref: GSOC 2008 advice)]

2008-03-04 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
On 04/03/2008, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave: Brian Cameron wrote: Quoting myself: Whether a user would find a GNOME 2.24 renamed to GNOME 3.0 release exciting would probably depends on what version the user was previously using. If they were using 2.6 (or something

Re: GIO backend for GtkFileChooser

2008-03-04 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 03 mars 2008, à 10:38 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : From libgnome: #: ../schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schemas.in.in.h:22 msgid Module to use as the filesystem model for the GtkFileChooser widget. Possible values are \gnome-vfs\ and \gtk+\. Issues: * Now we allow gio

Re: help sanity check the release notes

2008-03-04 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 03 mars 2008, à 13:23 +, Davyd Madeley a écrit : On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 14:19 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Some comments by Olav (he's at work right now, so I'm his slave sending his mails): + Simplified Keyboard Settings: not an administrator thingy IMO Ok. + 'the