9 août 2019 17:04 "chase rayfield" <cusbrar1@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
Pulkomandy sounds like you need a higher resolution display ;-) 2k/4k
is mostly not that useful but small fonts would be an exception to
that rule.
Conversely, currently the Haiku installer also seems to require
loading all fonts some of which are quite huge, there's recently been
some back and forth over some of the larger fonts which I don't think
was ever resolved...it increases the memory requirements of the
installer past what is required normally to boot and probably slows
the installer down also, if anything the installer should be more lean
since swap isn't available... perhaps the loading of fonts could be
completely skipped initially and prerendered menu selections for
Language could be used to circumvent this?
Then only load required
fonts to the machine. Also you'd think the installer wouldn't load
all packages on the install disk unless live desktop was selected but
I'm not sure that is the case. I've always found the package selection
list in the installer quite weird since it doesn't work I think I have
a bug report about this also, It would be nice if it actually listed
all packages to install and allowed deselecting them intelligently by
category or groups. For instance if I want to build a minimal USB boot
disk or a subset of the install from a current install I can't do that
but it should be reasonably easy to do.
Also, fancy font rendering is relatively slow on old machines, would
it be possible to provide BeOS equivalent font rendering for old PCs
or perhaps document graphics cards that can accelerate rendering
adequately on old machines. Perhaps the font menus should indicate
that one method or other is fastest or best quality etc... This may
be relevant for alternate architectures also that are slower than x86
or don't have an equivalent to SSE existent or implemented etc...