From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ND4h3-00024m-Gf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:09 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ND4h1-000244-58 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ND4gw-000213-Mp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58438 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ND4gw-000210-FY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:02 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:54268 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ND4gw-00041I-E7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:02 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ND4gu-0004N1-9X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:21:00 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ND4gt-0001QF-AS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:20:59 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:20:59 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091124232059.GA5332@thorin> References: <20091124121027.GA317@thorin> <20091124173555.GA32105@thorin> <20091124110646.42f051d6@svelte> <4B0C3762.9000700@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B0C3762.9000700@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:21:07 -0000 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing > important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free > fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of > gettext) and load only ones really needed > [...] > > I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than > > converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel > > to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the > > conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free > > outline fonts > I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has > to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow > system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for > optimising it) I understand there's a lot of room for improvement, but it'd be interesting to start providing a basic set of fonts so that we get the ball rolling and theme authors can beging doing their artist work. Has someone obtained a working multi-size setup with grub-mkfont + unifont? Currently I just know that the default ascii.pf2 works (but doesn't have any single-size theme that would play well with it). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."