On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:05 +0000, 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.
A logical conclusion is that if of a gazillion different Linux distros, none fixed it, chances are high that it's not a problem to begin with. Just because something "feels" suboptimal doesn't mean it should be fixed. It's not really a distro issue. It's an integrator issue. And 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. > > If a font is installed, it HAS to be noted in the > > cache somewhere to be discoverable by apps. > O.K. but opening and mapping these files on every application launch > even when the associated fonts may _never_ be read for a particular > user > doesn't seem to be the most efficient thing to do. A very common rule for optimizing code is, don't optimize it if it's not a bottleneck. Say, you get rid of those 20 extra system calls out of the 7000 system calls during a typical application startup. You've gained what, a 0.3% improvement in the number of syscalls. Go translate that to wall clock time... Yes, of the 5GB worth of data installed on my laptop by Fedora, I probably don't need and never use 3GB of it. But I have better things to do than going over the list of all five hundred thousand files on my root partition and remove the ones I don't need. That holds true for most people. If you don't like it, use LSB, or gentoo, or some other productivity-optimized system. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
