On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Yo.
>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:24:09PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:48:14PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > > And it's hard to tell whether a user has the codecs installed for a
> > > given machine, then we would need to mount his win partition and then
> > > manually copy it which is very troublesome, why not just give the URL
> > > so that he can downlaod
> >
> > But aren't you already doing that with drakfont?
>
> Well yes, you snag the Windows font so that you can use it on your shiny
> new GNU/Linux box. But I consider Drakfont a system utility, doing that
> just for one DivX related individual package would be quite troublesome ...
> it would mean:
>
It is not only for divx but for example Divx ....
I think that codecs are also considered (in the windows world) as a system
utility (see multimedia in the control panel) ;-)
the need of commercial codecs (that you couldn't bring on the open sources
world without war) is growing , and give at least the possibility to use
existing comercial codecs would be a good thing .
> Besides, it can be easily fixed by downloading some codecs ( < 1 MB) and
> putting it into /usr/lib/win32. It's not worth the trouble to go the
> Drakfont way IMHO.
>
there are also freeware (Not opensources and opensources ) codecs....
if u will add this utility with the option of downloading codecs from
internet I'm sure that after a small time you will see a site that will
package free codecs and it will be a lot simplier ;-)
>
> BTW: What do I need
>
> > drakfont for? I never quite understood the purpose of this utility (no,
> > that's not a flame).
>
> Drakfont ..? I am not sure ... I don't use it either...I have NT partition
> which I never boot to on this machine. Kind of wasting space here. I have
> all the fonts that I want by default, so to hell^H^H^H^H with the windoze
> fontz.
I 've not yet used drakfont but I need it since hebrew font are very very
"CRADE" (Not clear and make me a lot angry ;-)
