Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le lundi 16 avril 2012 à 16:35 +0200, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le lundi 02 avril 2012 à 17:33 +0200, Bruno Friedmann a écrit :
One crazy idea, can't plymouth reuse the font needed by grub/grub2 ? those are available before any unlocking
The problem is not the font itself but the entire pango framework, which is not that small.
I wonder why though. We don't need to render fancy articles and layouts, especially not in initrd. We are talking about a single (english) sentence at most here. So for that simply using freetype directly to render the text into a buffer should suffice, right? There is no need for any full featured layout engine like pango.
This shouldn't be english only output (which is why plymouth is using pango + cairo).
Well, nice in theory. As a matter of fact we only need a few ascii characters in practice though. SUSE never had any translated boot messages. So the fancy pango stuff only results in bloat for no gain or nothing displayed and user completely left in the dark atm. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org