On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > > On Mo 30 Jun 2014 05:49:56 CEST, Michael DePaulo wrote: > >> a. Determine why the fonts are needed by some Linux applications, but >> not others. >> b. Determine what the default should be (I am leaning towards the >> "misc" set. Empirically, it solves the compatibility problems for most >> people, if not everyone. The "full" set makes the installer take much >> longer and adds lots more files to the filesystem, so I'd rather not >> make that the default.) >> c. I'll probably integrate them into the regular installer as an >> optional component, instead of putting them in a separate installer. >> This means that the installer will be 48.5 MB in size with solid lzma >> compression (compared to 56.0 MB with zlib compression.) However, in >> 2014, I think that 48.5 MB is reasonable. > > > How about this: > > We set up a new X2Go subproject called > > x2go-xfonts.git > > This subproject contains _all_ extra fonts and mainly is an NSIS installer. > > This installer can be used to install those extra fonts into the correct > directory for X2Go Client _and_ for PyHoca-GUI. > > The user/admin can install if he/she wants to install the fonts at both > locations (%ProgramFiles%\x2golient, %ProgramFiles%\PyHoca-GUI) or only at > one of them. > > The X2Go Client setup.exe should remain rather minimal IMHO. > > >> Do not expect the permanent fix to arrive in time for 4.0.2.1. > > > Absolutely fine! > > [...]
As Mike#1 and agreed on IRC, I will put the fonts in the X2Go Client installer as an optional component. These are the reasons: 1. Windows does not have a proper dependency system. So you can remove x2goclient or pyhoca-gui without removing the fonts. 2. I have to maintain the mapping between x2goclient/pyhoca-gui versions and the font package versions. This is because the fonts do change with different VcXsrv releases 3. Users expect "all the dependencies and optional components" to be in 1 installer on Windows. In fact, that is the recommendation for Windows. Also, we will close this bug once the fonts are in the X2Go Client installer. -Mike#2 _______________________________________________ x2go-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-dev
