Please unblock ttf-dejavu

2009-07-25 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, ttf-dejavu 2.29-3 is now in good shape, please allow it into testing TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Moving the spellchecker to d-i.d.o

2009-05-21 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, I was reading the IRC conversation backlog, in particular: 19:53 bubulle luk_: moving l10n-sync requires some coordination with david-e as he's using an all-po.tar.gz file that's produced by the script (for the spellchecker) 19:54 bubulle and moving the spellchecker to d-i.d.o might

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-12 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, during the Extremadura meeting about g-i, we talked about the possibility of having the chante to play games during an installation. There are still some evidence of this in the wiki [1] regards, Davide [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo#Games -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Please unblock ttf-dejavu

2009-04-10 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, please allow current ttf-dejavu (2.29-2) into testing. It contains a couple of udebs. Thank you in advance, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)

2009-03-05 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:45:30PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: Hi On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:00PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008, Tom Söderlund

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-16 Thread Davide Viti
I've forwarded lunar's message to the directfb ML (directfb-...@directfb.org) and got the following reply: - From: Niels Roest npro...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:47:00 +0100 To: Davide Viti zino...@tiscali.it Subject: Re: [directfb-dev] [lu...@debian.org: Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24

Please hint ttf-dejavu

2008-09-05 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, please let ttf-dejavu 2.25-3 migrate to testing. This version introduces the new ttf-dejavu-mono-udeb udeb needed for having a shell in the graphical installer. Thanx in advance, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)

2008-07-28 Thread Davide Viti
Hi On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:00PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008, Tom Söderlund wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:04:59AM +0200, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That is still with the to-much-reduced font udeb, isn't it? Or did Davide already provide a new version for you? I have used the last one mentioned by Davide on the

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-21 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:47:17PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Current size numbers (with the last ttf-dejavu-mono-udeb): That is still with the to-much-reduced font udeb, isn't it? Or did

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-11 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:53:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Davide Viti wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:56:28PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would not have thought anything higher than 2100 (inclusive, so after general punctuation) will ever be needed

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:42:39PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:01:54PM +0200, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: The attached patchset adds support for shells in the graphical installer: Execute a shell in menu, and rescue-mode shells can now be used in the graphical

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-09 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:56:28PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would not have thought anything higher than 2100 (inclusive, so after general punctuation) will ever be needed in the context of a D-I shell. I'm applying the same reduction script used for stripping ttf-dejavu-udeb_2.25-2_all.udeb;

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:01:54PM +0200, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: The attached patchset adds support for shells in the graphical installer: Execute a shell in menu, and rescue-mode shells can now be used in the graphical installer. this is really great! cdebconf-gtk-terminal requires three

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:42:39PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:01:54PM +0200, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: The attached patchset adds support for shells in the graphical installer: Execute a shell in menu, and rescue-mode shells can now be used in the graphical installer

Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)

2008-06-11 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:57:43PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: One comment: the name change means that the font selection script in rootskel-gtk will need to be adjusted as well! indeed Maybe we should implement a more generic mechanism where font udebs include a file in a certain location in

Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)

2008-06-11 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008, Tom Söderlund wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Tom Söderlund wrote: [0] http

Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)

2008-06-10 Thread Davide Viti
usage of the graphical installer. It would be good to look into that before the new version is uploaded. Davide Viti is our current fonts manager. Added him in CC in the hope that he has time to contact you about this and see if that increase can be reduced. I've created PDF charts [1] for old

Re: Missing glyphs

2008-05-29 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:05:46AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jamil, On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:49:13AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May

Re: Missing glyphs

2008-05-22 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Jamil, On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:16:13AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While generating the screenshots [1] showing how new dejavu renders text, I've noticed there are some missing glyphs, at least for bn [2] and zh_CN

Missing glyphs

2008-05-20 Thread Davide Viti
While generating the screenshots [1] showing how new dejavu renders text, I've noticed there are some missing glyphs, at least for bn [2] and zh_CN [3]; it'd be interesting to know if it's a font problem (missing glyph) or an error in the po file. any hints from original translators?? regards,

ttf-dejavu 2.24-2

2008-04-01 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, this version fixes #471024 which affects the graphical installer: please unblock it. TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#466194: ttf-cjk-compact-udeb: Some Korean glyphs missing

2008-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:20:47AM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: 2008-02-17 (일), 23:35 +0900, Kenshi Muto: I found some Hangul glyphs are missing during expertgui installation, with sid d-i 16-Feb-2008. Mojibakes seemed to happen on revised translations. I wonder this udeb

Please unblock ttf-dejavu 2.23-1

2008-02-03 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, it would be great if you could unblock ttf-dejavu 2.23-1 which fixes an important issue [1]. Thanx alot in advance, Davide [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200712191257.59357.benlaenen%40gmail.comforum_name=dejavu-fonts signature.asc Description: Digital

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?]

2008-01-16 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, Davide - Forwarded message from TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:07:41 +0800 To: Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer? I have not had the chance to download the iso image

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-16 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:01:49PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): With a good image there are differences (the latin characters look thinner). It should be up to the translators to decide. The most significant difference is probably in punctuation:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Debian Installer: Amharic screenshots]

2008-01-15 Thread Davide Viti
Just noticed the list was not CC'ed regards, Davide - Forwarded message from TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:50:02 +0800 To: Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian Installer: Amharic screenshots Hi We have discussed about the size

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-15 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just reported a bug against ttf-sil-abyssinica source package, with an attached patch, to propose stripping out the Latin range in the udeb. I've created a test image [1]

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:29:51AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Especially with Christian's comment that we display a fair number of strings that are not even in D-I SVN, this whole idea gets a huge NACK from me as it is. and in the input forms you can type unpredictable chars signature.asc

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Eddy, On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:39:13PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote: Why not do an automatic strip of the font and only *keep* the codepoints that are used, based on the existing translations? I know this could be too drastic and we run into the risk of loosing glyphs if we are not doing

Re: [RFC] Stripping Latin range in fonts used by g-i installer?

2008-01-08 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Christian, On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:00:44PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The udeb size goes from 220768 bytes to 183090 bytes Impressive! Im waiting for some ACK by others to propose the strip patch to the font maintainer. I

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:14:19AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which size should we use inside g-i? default fontsize is 9pt but some languages were set at bigger size I think that it would be better if the Amharic translation team comment

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Frans, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:35:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I forget why we still have dejavu. Davide: what are the chances of getting rid of that? ttf-dejavu has been the default font used in g-i for awhile now, so if the question is why we still have freefont, that's because it's

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Davide Viti wrote: However, I would expect that for other fonts just using the freefont Latin range would produce perfectly good results (provided the sizing is comparable) and especially

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:40:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I assume this was because the glyphs needed are not in freefont? Yes. The Ethiopic Unicode Bloc: U+1200-U+1399 just checked and the above range is not in Freefont and Dejavu either Are there any overlaps with the freefont

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: I've prepared a pdf file [1] with all the glyphs provided by the font. regards, Davide [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-sil-abyssinica.pdf ...and here some screenshots using the font at different fontsizes: http

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.22 released]

2007-12-09 Thread Davide Viti
FYI regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:33:06 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.22 released Hi all, Today we bring you the 2.22

Please hint ttf-dejavu into testing

2007-11-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, could you please hint current version of ttf-dejavu (2.21-1) into testing? the package provides also an udeb used by the graphical installer. TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [directfb-users] porting etch graphic installer to mips/lemote

2007-11-14 Thread Davide Viti
would be great! == Crash problem when dfbinfo is running in chroot jail. But it works fine without a chroot. -- /dev# /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/bin/dfbinfo /snip Unfortunately i cannot help you with such platform, but i know Davide Viti had been

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.21)

2007-11-05 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, new screenshots using dejavu 2.21 are available at [1] ; there are no differences with older version of the package. Details about the content of the newer version of dejavu can be found in [2]. Regards, Davide [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots [2]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.21 released]

2007-10-29 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide PS: Debian package will (hopefully) follow soon - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:28:22 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.21

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.20)

2007-10-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, I've just update the page [1] containing the screenshots taken using version 2.20 of dejavu and looks like the only language affected by the changes is Hebrew. Details about the content of the newer version of dejavu can be found in [2]. I've changed the scripts so that differences between

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.20 released]

2007-09-16 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide PS: Debian package will follow soon, after some more testing - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:29:08 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts]

Re: [g-i] Test image built with directfb 1.0.1-2 and GTK+ 2.11.6-1

2007-09-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, It would also be interesting knowing how the new set of libraries performs on PPC architecture, especially on boxes equipped with nvidia graphic chips, whre DFB 0.9.25 used to crash. I hope to find the time to test it on my macbook (equipped with an Ingel 945G), since previous version

Re: Bug#416911: New DirectFB 1.x releases are available

2007-09-04 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Guillem, On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:01:16AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm not going to upload 1.1.0, as it can be read from the release announcment that not all features are working again. I might later on upload it to experimental. I see; I hope problems will be fixed soon, so that we

Re: New DirectFB 1.x releases are available

2007-09-02 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:57:48PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi Recently DirectFB version 1.0.1 [1] and 1.1.0 [2] were released: i suggest we switch to the most recent DFB version while we're still early in Lenny release cycle. yes, most libs used for the g-i have been

Please hint ttf-dejavu into testing

2007-08-21 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, could you please hint current version of ttf-dejavu (2.19-1) into testing? the package provides also an udeb used by the graphical installer. TIA, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.19)

2007-08-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi all, I've just update the page containing the screenshots taken using version 2.19 of dejavu: there are no differences against previous version of dejavu. Details about the content of the newer version of dejavu can be found in [2]. Sorry for the delay but I'm still working on improving the

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.19 released]

2007-08-06 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:08:32 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.19 released Hi all,

Re: [g-i] Use of ttf-dejavu for rendering Georgian text

2007-08-06 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Aiet, On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:17:08AM +0400, Aiet Kolkhi wrote: May I inquire about the origin of the Georgian glyphs in ttf-dejavu? the following thread should cover most details:

[g-i] switch to ttf-dejavu for Georgian

2007-08-04 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, as announced in [1], I've just switched g-i as to use ttf-dejavu to render Georgian text instead of ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts-udeb This involved a few steps: * remove ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts-udeb from installer/build/gtk-common/ (r48873) * I've filed #435970 asking to stop providing the udeb

Re: [D-I] Changes to D-I level 1 statistics

2007-08-04 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Christian, On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Davide, you should just check whether this affected the spellchecker or not. It looks ok to me. regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [D-I] Changes to D-I level 1 statistics

2007-08-03 Thread Davide Viti
I will check it asap (probably early next week) ciao, Davide Messaggio originale Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 03/08/2007 13.09 A: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ogg: [D-I] Changes to D-I quot;level 1quot; statistics This change will not really

Re: Root and user password does not show symbols

2007-07-20 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:04:29PM +0100, nirupama rout wrote: Package: Installation-report Version: At the time of installation found bug I am using debian-installer from svn unstable and while installaing for writing the root password and user password I find it neither takes '*' nor

Re: Root and user password does not show symbols

2007-07-20 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:40:02AM +0100, nirupama rout wrote: I have compiled the debian-installer that I took a month back from svn. it should be ok now; I've also just tried to run an installation using Hindi language (in order to make sure g-i selects another font other than dejavu) and

Re: [g-i] Use of ttf-dejavu for rendering Georgian text

2007-07-10 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:31:37PM +0530, Praveen A wrote: Davide, Can you include Malayalam glyphs also in Dejavu? How the glyphs has to be submitted? Giving you the Malayalam font will do or should we give you the complete Dejavu with Malayalam Glyphs added. one of the main goals

[spellchecker] double dash in msgids

2007-07-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, following #432339 I've added a new check: string starting with -- or ending wih -- should be followed by a msgstr behaving the same way. Frans and Christian have just fixed po files. regards, Davide PS: next run of the spellchecker will happen tomorrow around 11am UTC signature.asc

[g-i] Use of ttf-dejavu for rendering Georgian text

2007-07-09 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, as I reported in [1], version 2.18 of ttf-dejavu (currently in sid), adds support for Georgian which helps achieving a better consistency in g-i and desktop in general. g-i still includes and uses Georgian glyphs coming from ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts-udeb but I'd like to change it as to switch

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.18)

2007-07-05 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, bubulle has uploaded the new version of ttf-dejavu (2.18-1). I took the usual screenshots; this release contains alot of fixes and new glyphs, I'd like to point out that it now adds support for Georgian, making it possible to achieve better consistency in g-i (*) please refer to [1] for more

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] 2.18 has been released]

2007-07-01 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:02:09 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] 2.18 has been released Hi all,

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.17)

2007-06-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:30:38PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -=| Davide Viti, Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:05:57 +0200 |=- Looks like there are differences only for bg and he: probably some glyphs got hinted. I'd say that the last line of BG looks different than upper lines. Any idea why

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.17)

2007-06-04 Thread Davide Viti
Hi all, finally managed to create new screenshots [1] meant to compare fonts rendering inside g-i; the problems reported in the previous round of screenshots [2] seem to have gone with the upgrade to newer libraries. Looks like there are differences only for bg and he: probably some glyphs got

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.17 released]

2007-05-13 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:02:57 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.17 released Hi all,

Bug#415127: installation-report: Graphical install does not work on Apple MacBook

2007-05-12 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:40:41AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Davide Viti ha scritto: Very recently a patch [1] was pushed upstream in directfb, which is supposed to fix a similar crash on ppc (#422146), again due to linux_input. If you have time, could you please try rebuilding

Re: Preliminary success reported in fixing this bug

2007-05-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:44:10PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi Yesterday Luca Suriano managed to rebuild directfb-0.9.25 applying Ville's patch for linux_input module on his power mac and reported a preliminary success by copying on the fly the new input driver in the g-i

Bug#415127: installation-report: Graphical install does not work on Apple MacBook

2007-05-09 Thread Davide Viti
Very recently a patch [1] was pushed upstream in directfb, which is supposed to fix a similar crash on ppc (#422146), again due to linux_input. If you have time, could you please try rebuilding directfb udeb with Ville's patch and rebuild a gtkminiiso for testing? I've tried an iso image using

Bug#415127: installation-report: Graphical install does not work on Apple MacBook

2007-05-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:53:09AM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: The graphical installer didn't work. After trying several parameter combinations, I used the default text installer. To be honest, that does not completely surprise me. AFAIK the graphical installer has never been tried on Intel

Bug#415127: installation-report: Graphical install does not work on Apple MacBook

2007-05-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:18:47PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Davide Viti ha scritto: snip/ As suggested by Attilio, I then got the output of dfbinfo (attached to this message) which I hope will help identifying the root of the problem. snip/ (*) Direct/Modules: suppress

Bug#419947: [newt] Characters in titlebar are sometimes unbalanced

2007-05-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 06:58:26PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:44, Davide Viti wrote: The attached patch makes sure characters surrounding the title are always even (see also #416543). This is really only a very cosmetic issue. indeed I have some reservations

Bug#419947: [newt] Characters in titlebar are sometimes unbalanced

2007-04-18 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-newt-udeb Version: 0.115 Severity: minor Tags: patch The attached patch makes sure characters surrounding the title are always even (see also #416543). I've tested it mainly on show_select_window() using the ad-hoc config/template files attached which create a title of the form

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-15 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: which means that if I install debian using Italian translations (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I waste 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy. When using g-i, besides trimming

Re: Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-15 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:33:00PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I do hope you are aware that the original BR everybody is so happily posting this discussion to doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the way this discussion has evolved. Please take a bit more care and help preserve the sanity of our

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:31:15PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: The following are mostly ideas exchanged in the wild about what could be done in cdebconf to reduce the impact of the increasing number of translations on the memory requirements of D-I: while on the subject (but on the g-i

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: That would mean we have to keep track of which font is needed by what language. A new field in languagelist? yes, probably we need to keep in mind there can be corner cases like CJK where a language may need more than just a

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.16)

2007-04-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, bubulle has kindly uploaded the new version of ttf-dejavu (2.16-1). I took the usual screenshots; please refer to [1] to see what changed since version 2.15. The screenshots can be found in [2], where you can see what changed from the previous version. You'll notice there are many

Bug#416543: [newt] Last letter of the title is cut

2007-04-01 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:42:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Tried to increase it to 10 with the patch below and title looks ok (see attached screenshot showing trunk vs patched cdebconf) Will hopefully try to understand how sizes are computed early next week. That still does not explain

Bug#416543: [newt] Last letter of the title is cut

2007-04-01 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007 18:16, Davide Viti wrote: TITLE_PADDING is 8 and is currently computed counting the following chars: 6 - ┌┤ [!] 2 - ├┐ No, actually it is (look at the comment): 1 - ┤ 6 - [!!] 1 - ├ (IIRC

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] 2.16 has been released]

2007-04-01 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide - Forwarded message from Denis Jacquerye [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Denis Jacquerye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:20:40 +0200 To: DejaVu-Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DejaVu-fonts] 2.16 has been released Hi all, DejaVu fonts 2.16 has

Bug#416543: [newt] Last letter of the title is cut

2007-03-31 Thread Davide Viti
Tags: patch thanks On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:13:28AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: This is probably the same issue as in #382278. Not sure why it still does not do the calculation correctly in this case. It could be that #define TITLE_PADDING 8 is still too low, but it would be nice to know why.

Bug#415127: installation-report: Graphical install does not work on Apple MacBook

2007-03-20 Thread Davide Viti
The graphical installer didn't work. After trying several parameter combinations, I used the default text installer. To be honest, that does not completely surprise me. AFAIK the graphical installer has never been tried on Intel-based Macs yet. It is a bit strange as the graphics controller

ttf-dejavu 2.15-1

2007-02-26 Thread Davide Viti
I'm posting the results for the tests I've run to make sure the new version of ttf-dejavu (2.15-1, currently in unstable) does not introduce any regression and can safely migrate into testing. I've taken screenshots using both deb and udeb packages and organized them this way (use [1] as root

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.15 released]

2007-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
FYI, regards, Davide PS: I'm working on the debian package which will be ready in the next few days - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:21:15 +0100 To:

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:31:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: We should still aim to keep the regular G-I as lean and mean as possible. We can gain a _lot_ (in the newt frontend too) by reducing the memory used for translations. I did some more research on the font tip and I think we can still

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:28:52PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Vern Sun wrote: Given the great number of environmental variables involved, could you please first check that the regular gtk miniiso boots on your system ? I think some more error output is needed; I don't yet know

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.14)

2007-02-04 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:42:01AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davide Viti wrote: I took some screenshots using latest dejavu 2.14; please refer to [1] to see what changed since version 2.13. The screenshots can be found in [2

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.14)

2007-02-02 Thread Davide Viti
I took some screenshots using latest dejavu 2.14; please refer to [1] to see what changed since version 2.13. The screenshots can be found in [2], and in case you wanted to compare them to those taken using the previous version, see [3] feedback is very welcome regards, Davide PS: Jamil,

ttf-dejavu: what's next?

2007-01-23 Thread Davide Viti
Today ttf-dejavu 2.13-1 has been migrated into testing (yay!); version 2.14 has just been released upstream and I've worked on packaging the new version. In the meanwhile Frans, has spotted some problems (see [1]) with the oblique variant which are being worked on; of those problems, the extra

Re: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu fonts 2.14 release

2007-01-21 Thread Davide Viti
FYI regards, Davide PS: I'm working on preparing the Debian package, which will be uploaded to unstable once version 2.13-1 moves to testing On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:40:09PM +0100, Denis Jacquerye wrote: DejaVu fonts 2.14 have been released. This release adds new Unicode 5.0 adjustments

Typos in installation guide

2007-01-01 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, I just spotted a few typos in the English version of the manual; in case anyone wanted to do the same here's how I've done it for file in $(find -name *.xml) ; do aspell list --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 ${file} unkn.txt done sort unkn.txt | uniq -c aa.txt mv aa.txt

Re: r43656 - trunk/scripts/l10n/l10n-spellcheck/cfg/level1/wls

2006-12-30 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:50:06PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... Log: Some more warning removal I don't understand, Davide. I was thinking that words with hyphens and dots are OK in the individual language files. Which is why I added

Re: Bug#403404: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#403404: ttf-malayalam: error while opening ttf file with fontforge

2006-12-30 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Praveen, I'm bringing the discussion also in debian-boot On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:27:57AM +0530, പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen wrote: 2006/12/22, Davide Viti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/rachana_w01_otf.iso please give us some more feedback. We have tested the ISOs

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.13)

2006-12-22 Thread Davide Viti
I took some screenshots using latest dejavu 2.13; please refer to [1] to see what changed since version 2.12. The screenshots can be found in [2], and in case you wanted to compare them to those taken using the previous version, see [3] feedback is very welcome regards, Davide [1]

Re: [l10n][translations][spellcheck] is it possible to add dictionaries from Etch?

2006-12-20 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Eddy, I have made a package for aspell-ro and has entered the archive just in time to enter Etch. I was wondering if now Romanian could be spellchecked by using the package in Etch. The package should work without problems on Sarge. If you get the alioth admins to install it, I'll be happy

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.13 released]

2006-12-19 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:24:09PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: Many thanks to Peter, and welcome to Davide! :) thanx We've seen a lot of progress with the devavu font package in the past few months. It is currently the best free-software pan-Unicode font displaying Vietnamese, which is

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu Fonts 2.13 released]

2006-12-17 Thread Davide Viti
FYI regards, Davide PS: as you can see this release contains a lot of fixes, so I hope it'll make in Etch - Forwarded message from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:18:23

[g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.12)

2006-11-28 Thread Davide Viti
I took some screenshots using latest dejavu 2.12; please refer to [1] to see what changed since version 2.11. Note that Hebrew is now using glyphs from Dejavu rather than from Freefont (see [2]) The screenshots can be found in [3], and in case you wanted to compare them to those taken using

Re: [g-i] arm port

2006-11-28 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:50:12 +0200, Davide Viti wrote: ... As suggested by Denis the problem is that directfb supports RGB and not BGR, but looks like the fb is BGR. Here's an update (conversation took place on #debian-arm pbrook I suspect there's a bug in the qemu LCD controller

Re: Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-28 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:42:03PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Yesterday i tried to dig a bit some more in this issue, but i had no luck. It looks like libgcc is needed on AMD64 only, on i386 i culd not find this library in the ISO, and i wonder why AMD64 differs from i386. I haven't the

Re: [g-i] Hebrew fonts: freefont - dejavu [UPDATE]

2006-11-27 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:26:28AM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: We're in the process of switching g-i as to use dejavu rather than freefont for rendering Hebrew text (see [1]); I've filed #399901 and #400516 After the uploads, I'll take care of updating the wiki and post some screenshots

[g-i] Hebrew fonts: freefont - dejavu

2006-11-26 Thread Davide Viti
We're in the process of switching g-i as to use dejavu rather than freefont for rendering Hebrew text (see [1]); I've filed #399901 and #400516 After the uploads, I'll take care of updating the wiki ([2]) and post some screenshots. Regards, Davide [1]

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