Not sure I'll be attending the meeting scheduled for Saturday either (weekends are always a big "?" for me). Here's a summary of the ongoing activities related with g-i:
* Fonts ------- ATM some fonts are not yet available as official udebs, but as tarballs fetched at compile time from [1]; this is not not acceptable as a long term solution. In particular here's a list of fonts file and associated bugreport: - ttf-farsiweb_0.4-2.tgz (#355447) - ttf-tamil-fonts_0.4.7.tgz (#358226) - ttf-thai-tlwg_0.4.4-3.tgz (#372799) ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts (#356333) will be added to the above list as soon as #373836 will be fixed. In the meanwhile Dejavu 2.6 hit unstable (thanx Christian!!) and it is now used as default font for g-i (screenshots in [6]). The Wiki [2] has been updated and reflects most of the changes happened recently. I personally think that the future looks bright and it's just a matter of time before the udebs will hit the archives. * new core libraries -------------------- There's a lot going on with the packaging of the new generation of graphic libraries used by the g-i; a lot happened after the Extremadura session in January and I'm confident that in the short term we'll have a set of new libraries that will fix most of the known problems. The only missing pieces are now libcairo2 (>= 1.1.6) compiled with directfb backend and gtk+-directfb (>=2.8.17) as for libcairo Dave Beckett (maintainer of the package) produced some test packages (1.1.6 and 1.1.8 a few days later) which have been tested and used to produce unofficial iso images (see [3]). It is still unclear if libcairo2-directfb-dev.deb has to be produced along with the other (u)debs or not; IMHO it should be produced, in case somebody wanted to use directfb instead of X, since directfb is in the archives. Once libcairo will be ready the gnome team will have all the components needed to produce the last piece of the huge stack! Josselin Mouette and Sebastien Bacher have been involved in the discussion, and the final agreement is that the gnome team will produce the (u)debs needed for g-i based on 2.8.x libraries integrating a patch produced by Attilio [4], later on revised and adapted by myself [5] in order to get it working with the new cairo packages. Note that now gtk+2.8.18 has been released, but the very same patch is still compatible. It would be great if cairo and gft+-directfb were available as official packages ASAP (note that the gnome team could already start working on their package by using what Dave has made available) Everything else is ready for the switch (rootskel-gtk needs a patch I already created in order to work with the new libs) I'm really looking forward to see all of this happening. regards, Davide [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/06/msg00687.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/05/msg00064.html [5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/gtk+-directfb_2.8.17.patch.gz [6] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots/20060614_dejavu2.6/ Naviga senza limiti con 4 Megabps di velocita' a soli 19,95 Euro al mese, ATTIVA SUBITO e hai 2 MESI GRATIS! In piu', se sei raggiunto dalla rete Tiscali, telefoni senza pagare il canone Telecom. Comincia subito a risparmiare! http://abbonati.tiscali.it/prodotti/adsl/tc/4flat/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
