[cross-posting to an Israeli Group of Linux Users. IGLU readers, please read and send me your feedback. A concrete information (specific apps, toolkits, specific characters/nikud) would help us form a valid opinion]
On Saturday, 19 בApril 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > > When looking over the LiveCD manifest, and where space is going, I > > can't help but notice that a lot of it goes to fonts. Here's the > > full list, AFAICT. The number to the left is the size of the package. > > I think a good chunk of this could be pruned. > > My advice would be: > ... > 4. drop culmus — DejaVu full includes Hebrew no one complained of during > the F9 cycle, so no need to keep a separate Hebrew font on a > space-constrained media If DejaVu provides "good-enough" substitute for space limited media, than it may be OK. However, it should be noted that culmus became the standard Hebrew font for Linux. Every FAQ out there point to culmus for getting high quality Hebrew desktop and people got used to expect it from their distros. Fedora didn't have any Hebrew localization team until about three weeks ago and we now have a single translator (me), which explain why you didn't get any feedback earlier. However, we do have a lot of Hebrew support from upstream (Mozilla, OO.org, Gnome, KDE). A basic font change affect *all* of them. I (like most Hebrew users) didn't use DejaVu for Hebrew until now. Because of the time constraints I'll try and have some basic testing in the next few days, to see if DejaVu provides reasonable substitute for culmus in LiveCD's. I'm cross posting this to our local mailing list, so I can get further feedback quickly and summarize our position. > I'm afraid most wins are in 3. 5. 6. & 7., and they depend on l10n > groups telling us their wishes, which unfortunately has not happened a > lot so far. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N > remains terribly incomplete. Thanks for pointing this link. I'll use it to fill our summary (probably next week). -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Debugging is at least twice as hard as writing the program in the first place. So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
