Re: bloatware
Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.forum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 [email protected] wrote: > We build fixed and one or two other fonts into the kdrive X server. > > The reasoning here is that in embedded systems, you need to ensure > that the X server will always start at least far enough to get to > a UI to tell the user how to reload the system. It isn't acceptable > on systems with no keyboards to expect a user to rummage around > a log file and try to recover. > > The size is quite small. > - Jm As long as it's not unicode. Mark. > > > > > It doesn't crash over here. It just doesn't start, which > > isn't the same thing. > > > > The only solution is probably to build a fixed font into the server, > > which some people might complain about (speaking of bloat). > > > > > > > -- > Jim Gettys > Cambridge Research Laboratory > HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company > [email protected] > >