On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 21:40 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Some comments inline :
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Jim Gettys jg@laptop.org wrote:
Fonts We'll need to sort through a lot of these and nuke a lot of bitmap and other fonts (e.g. type1, etc).
Wrt fonts: I would suggest having the Dejavu series of fonts and the Liberation series. The primary target is G1G1 users, as per my understanding, and in that case, these two fonts should cover most of the requirements.
Yes, until we get into eastern languages. But I don't want to go there initially....
Anyone care to spend some time to package a set of font aliases to cause use of outline fonts for the common antique bitmap families? This would be good in general to start weaning people off those disk space wasters....
I did this for at least a few fonts in the OLPC build (necessary if you run into any bitmap font applications), but stopped once we got flash and java to run that had such dependencies.
Definite ins
Gnumeric Abiword Firefox (some may question this, but I'm not yet sold on webkit)
Some suggest that Epiphany is lighter than firefox at times - I'm not sure whether this is true or not. Also, if Epiphany-webkit is packaged for Fedora, I would definitely like to give it a shot.
Data, RAM usage, disk footprint and compatibility would be needed to make a webkit sale. o Firefox 3 has done seriously better on memory consumption at the time of its release than other browsers, but it's a (constantly) moving target.... o Also note since Sugar's browse is based on Gecko/Xulrunner, there is sharing there when sugar is installed; installing something else would go to the detriment of the combined footprint for including Sugar.
Unless such data appears and is very compelling, I think Firefox is it, at least unless we decide to convert sugar's browse to webkit. I therefore don't plan to spend any time on this evaluation personally.
- music player Rhythmbox? or something else? There are many to choose
from.
The other major contender would be banshee - it's dependency on Mono leaves it out.
Ah, that makes it an easy choice, unless there is a third option....