On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:17:42PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > There are other candidates, one of which I mentioned to Michael Tiemann the > other day. These are but a few suggestions, based upon sorting by size and > running test removals under Synaptic. All sizes quoted below are installed > sizes as reported by Synaptic. It appears to me that Synaptic underreports > sizes by a significant margin, though. > > * Gnucash (72MB). Extras, not Core. I have this one installed, but > it still is not Core functionality. It's a shame that this package is so large, but I think that this, or some other accounting package should remain as part of the core. Checkbook balancing and general personal finance tracking are a common enough activity that some way to do this seems as though it should be provided by the core application set. > * The X.org 100DPI fonts, unless and until a GUI config utility can > be had to easily switch between the 75DPI fonts and these. (and > those that might say that I just need a higher resolution to > appreciate them, well, I have one reply: I'm at 1400x1050 now; want > me to go higher? :-)) Just how many fonts need to be Core material? Here xdpyinfo says "resolution: 112x112 dots per inch". I wouldn't be surprised to find out that most monitors today are closer to 100 DPI than they are to 75 DPI. Since even with the current set of fonts people complain about a lack of nice fonts, I think that these are still worth the 1.5M that they seem to occupy. Anyway, thanks for the thourough and detailed analysis. There is indeed some trimming to be done. -- John Kodis Goddard Space Flight Center kodis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Phone: 301-286-7376 Fax: 301-286-1771
