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." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel