[Design-team] Initial Anaconda installer mockup

Luya Tshimbalanga luya at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 25 21:22:59 UTC 2010


 On 25/10/10 01:50 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Luya,
>
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>> On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>> I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure
>> that
>>> Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in
>> the
>>> boot process.)
>> I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other
>> distributions show the possibility.
>> Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current
>> incarnation feels so legacy.
> So I talked to Peter Jones & Chris Lumens in #anaconda, basically:
>
> - syslinux & grub use system bitmap fonts so they can't use arbitrary
> fonts right now
> - anaconda can support any fonts X can support, so Comfortaa/Cantarell
> are possible here
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> ~m
Cool! Thanks Máirín.

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