To allay some fears and misconceptions with regards to the CD, these files actually compress better by being stored as uncompressed and therefore bzip2/lzma being able to use combined compression. Regardless of the compression method is combined-generic (deflate, bzip2, lzma) or the per-file domain-specific (png pre-processors + deflate) the sizes are all in the range between 4 kilobytes and 6 kilobytes.
Of course, the raw uncompressed BMP inclusion makes a two-megabyte difference to an /installed/ system (which is a 1% difference on a Netbook flash drive), but the issue is not as simple as the title implies. On a wider note I would question: 1. Why are the bitmaps being shipped, not dynamically rendered 2. Why are they rendered from Tahoma rather than a fully libre font So, on the CDs and the .debs, it's irrelevant, but it *does* make an installed footprint difference. -- don't ship .bmp files but rather .png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678460 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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