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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Antialiased fonts patch.
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:20:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B750134.4090203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265958489.2292.33.camel@EK>

Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote:

> If we really care about speed we should use 1-bit fonts. Nothing can be
> faster. And 1-bit fonts will stay here.
> 
> But if we care about eye-candy view, we should not throw away any bits
> from FT library result. This will not be fast enough to replace 1-bit
> fonts, and it will differ from other desktop apps. So, what the profit?
> 
> You also may concern about font size itsef (15-30 Mb for sub-pixel AA),
> but who really care about it when 1 Tb HDD costs less than 100$? Also we
> can gzip entire font file later if it will really be the problem.

Actually I don't understand why AA fonts are needed for a screen that 
most users will look at for about 3 seconds to select their OS and boot.

I suspect most distros will set up grub to skip the GRUB screen completely.

Is the effort worth the cost?  I suppose doing it 'because you can' or 
because someone is 'scratching and itch' is OK, but I don't think it 
should be a major consideration.

   -- Bruce



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21 13:19 grub-mkfont and DejaVu font problems Evgeny K
2010-01-21 13:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-22 11:46   ` Antialiased fonts patch Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-22 12:53     ` BVK Chaitanya
2010-01-22 13:22       ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-26  9:11     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-26 10:04       ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-26 11:59         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-26 19:44           ` Carles Pina i Estany
2010-02-11  2:58         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
     [not found]           ` <1265957146.2292.11.camel@EK>
2010-02-12  9:50             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-02-11 13:30         ` Michal Suchanek
2010-02-12  6:21           ` richardvoigt
2010-02-12  6:48             ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-02-12  7:08           ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-02-12  7:20             ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2010-02-12  7:52               ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-02-12  9:15               ` Michal Suchanek
2010-02-12  9:55               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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