[haiku-commits] Re: r33992 - haiku/trunk/data/system/data/fonts/ttfonts
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:49 +0100
Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On the topic of fonts I also think it might be nice to add the
> > Droid
> > fonts from Android
> > (http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree;f=data/fonts;hb=HEAD),
> > > > or at least see how they look on Haiku. If anyone has tried them
> > let
> > me know.
> >
> > In addition I also think it would be good to integrate my Microsoft
> > Font Installer [1] or something similar into the Haiku installer,
> > so
> > we can have Verdana and the other fonts. Or it could be added as an
> > optional package.
> Watch out with fonts, as they increase the disk occupation in a
> sensible manner. VL Gothic + VL PGothic, for example, are almost
> eight
> (8) MBs. To be fair, western fonts aren't that big usually, but if we
> start like "hey, let's add xyz font since it's cool" we will end up
> wasting a lot of space. It would be better to keep them as optional
> packages.
I think we should have some fall back fonts that cover most non-western
character sets - but anything beyond that should be in an optional
package indeed.
I wouldn't mind to have some more western fonts in the default system,
though, just a few selected ones, though. Others should only be
available as optional package, as well.
Bye,
Axel.
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