Hi, a...@boum.org wrote (23 Jul 2011 22:07:36 GMT) : > As a user, I imagine I would prefere to have a partially translated UI > than english, and it seems wired not to be able to access nice > translations that are in debian. That would argue for 2).
I'm very much in favour of this one. > But on the other hand, some applications Tails ships have separated > i18n packages (I think of openoffice and iceweasel) and as we won't > probably install all of them for image size reasons, it seems > resoneable to have a list of (better) supported languages for which > we install these packages. This seems me to be the current approach > (in 0.7.x) and to argue for 1). IMHO, the current approach is due to syslinux limitations only. I fail to understand why not shipping iceweasel-l10n-XX would be a reason for preventing the XX-speaking user to get a GNOME translated into the XX language. About image size: we decided some time ago we should not let image size block improvements, and allow ourselves to push the limit to 1GB as soon as we have a USB installer ready; not that I was that much in favour of this decision, but still. I've therefore done some measurements (in a Squeeze amd64 chroot): - iceweasel-l10n-* : 11MB compressed .deb - openoffice.org-l10n-*: 210MB compressed .deb (SquashFS rootfs compression give generally better results than per-package compression) => supporting a lot of languages, the same way as we currently support only a handful, seems doable once we go the 1GB way. Bye, -- intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Then we'll come from the shadows. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev
