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
next prev parent 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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