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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
