On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:51:31AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:50:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > severity 408460 wishlist > > thanks > > > > On 1/26/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > >A workaround for this would be to set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO. See the > > >/usr/doc/share/iceweasel/README.Debian file. > > > > this behavior can be annoying to the user. would it be possible to > > automatically set this option based on the language? for example, > > only use pango for those languages that have rendering issues without > > pango. > > Ubuntu does this, based on the user locale, and I think this is a very > bad idea. The user locale is not necessarily related to the language > used in the pages the user will look at.
No, but it is our best approximation of whether that locale is especially important to the user (which isn't an especially good one). It is trivial for a power user to override this if it guesses incorrectly. > I also heard activating EXA instead of XAA in the X configuration > improved the performance. Do you have a reference for this which we could follow up? I agree that the current Ubuntu solution isn't ideal, but it was unacceptable for performance to be as poor as it was for very common use cases. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
