I also propose to remove star wars game from Calc to save space (or at least move it to separate package if there are lots of fans)
24.04.10, 21:31, "Ivan M" <i2initiati...@gmail.com>: > Hello all, > > Recently I have explored one specific area where we could easily > reduce the hard disk footprint of OpenOffice.org. The vast > majority of reductions would be passed on to the size of the OOo > installer, which makes this all the more attractive (less bandwidth > costs, people download OOo quicker and they have a little more hard > drive space for all their documents :P). > > The area in question is found in a bunch of zip files in OOo's > /Basis/share/config folder. These are the toolbar icon sets that are > bundled with OOo, and there are 6 of them (galaxy, high contrast, > industrial, tango, crystal and classic). I have written a discussion > about how OOo could be smarter with these icon sets and save space [1]. > > In summary, what it comes down to is: > > 1) Get rid of old icon sets. Industrial and Classic are two good candidates > IMO. > > 2) Run PNGOUT [2] on all icon sets to reduce the size of each PNG file. > Small reductions across many files add up substantially. > > 3) Reduce the duplication of images in each icon set. The high contrast icons > also appear to be duplicated in the Galaxy icon set - does anyone know why? > > 4) Increase/decrease the compression of each icon set depending on the > performance impact (i.e., we can reduce compression if it will make > OOo load faster, or we can increase it if the extra memory use is > inconsequential). > > #2 alone could save a few megabytes and would require no code > modifications whatsoever. At the very, very least we should do this, > and it could be done in time for OOo 3.3 (maybe even 3.2.1?) > > My discussion/proposal is based on what I have been able to gather by > myself, so this may not actually be as simple as I believe. That's why > a discussion can't just be between one person. I have had some positive > responses to this on the UX and Branding list [3] and I'm hoping this email > to the dev list will help make this proposal more concrete. > > I do have a couple of questions as well (I'm not sure who I should ask?): > 1) Why do the high contrast icons appear to be duplicated in the > Galaxy set AND in the high contrast icon set? > 2) What happened to the icon sets between OOo 3.2 and 3.2.1? Their > size decreased considerably - was this just the new ODF icons or is > some kind of space saving effort underway? > > Regards, > Ivan. > > ------ > [1] > http://www.patentpending.co.nz/soapbox/index.php/reducing-the-footprint-of-openoffice-org-toolbar-icons/ > [2] http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm > [3] > http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=branding&by=thread&from=2359419 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org > > > -- Regards, Konstantin Здесь спама нет http://mail.yandex.ru/nospam/sign --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
