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On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:46, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> yeah, that's a big issue actually, but that is related to the i18n problem. |
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> That is, there is no step in the installation to choose your localization, so |
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> that everything takes it in account. pauldv told me it requires changes in |
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> portage. |
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Hardly, it needs a different approach in some cases. I could see font |
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setup happen all outside of portage, Portage changes take too long to be |
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taken into account and font configuration is pretty centralized these |
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days. |
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> For the subjective way of testing, of course you are right, but you can test |
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> gentoo by default, then other distro by default, or windows or other OS by |
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> default (for those who have them). So for the same person, you'll be able to |
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> say : this is better than that... |
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This is still subjective. Gentoo defaults should stay as close as |
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possible to upstream defaults in my opinion. |
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> That's only theoric, because that involve a lot of testing (test gentoo, 2 |
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> other distros, windows and macos) and multiple testers (from various |
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> locations). |
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> Maybe we could ask non western testers to help. |
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Yeah, when a framework is set up and it's about tweaking only. At the |
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moment it is not relevant. |
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> in flux ? |
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Things concerning this have been in the works. Actually it is waiting |
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for that until a next step is taken, although it could maybe use an |
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impulse, but this is not all on Gentoo level. |
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> hmm, what is our duty then? what are the applications that we should check the |
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> look? In addition, I don't want us to correct them, but only to test them, see |
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> if a problem is general or only on 3 ebuilds, sadly used by a big amount of |
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> people. |
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It's easy to figure out what GUI applications are affected, mostly |
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non-recent GTK/QT apps that use the old ways to handle fonts. |
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> > Although they are connected, setting up fonts has little to do with |
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> > i18n. |
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> well, I'm looking for the way to see if the fonts look right in various |
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> language. We can ask volunteers to do that, but it'll take time. If one person |
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> has good knowledge of i18n he might already cover 80% of validation |
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Nah, as said i18n has little to do with fonts setup, it takes a native |
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reader to assess what fonts look best for a certain language or |
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preferably a lot of them to come to some good agreement. |
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- foser |
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