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Re: [Elementary-translators] Add the 8 most popular language packs to the ISO image

 

I have never successfully made a live USB. I'm sure it's easy once you
learn how to do it, but until it's foolproof, I think CD is the way to go.
Moreover, a size limit does us to get rid of unnecessary bloat.
On Sep 24, 2012 9:06 AM, "Chris Triantafillis" <christriant1995@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> My opinion is that we should increase the size limit and encourage people
> use USB rather than CD...
> CD is harmfull for the enviroment too...
>
> 2012/9/24 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Alrighty, well if we think it'll fit, I'm down with adding more
>> languages.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Daniel Foré
>>
>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 10:50 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx>
>> escribió:
>>
>> Daniel Fore:
>>
>> The stuff gets compressed with squashfs to like 1/3 of the original
>> size.That means around 46/47 MB.
>>
>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Currently we want to fit on a CD, so 700MB
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:32 p.m., Chris Triantafillis <
>>> christriant1995@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>
>>>  What is the size limit?
>>>
>>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Sounds like we really don't have room for that. We have room for 50
>>>> more MB. So maybe we can choose like 3?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Daniel Foré
>>>>
>>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:25 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <
>>>> eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> I included here Russian as well, couse its used quite often:
>>>>>
>>>>> 140 MB are going to be used after this operation by apt-get : sudo
>>>>> apt-get --no-install-recommends --download-only install
>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pl  language-pack-gnome-es language-pack-gnome-it
>>>>> language-pack-gnome-ru language-pack-gnome-nl language-pack-gnome-fr
>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pt language-pack-gnome-de language-pack-gnome-en
>>>>>
>>>>> When someone wants to test that, go for it and include it in your
>>>>> custom build with congrego ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012/9/23 Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think American English is pretty standard in computing, even
>>>>>> internationally. Not that it will be a serious impediment d either way.
>>>>>> On Sep 23, 2012 1:28 PM, "David Gomes" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First of all, English and Portuguese will be a problem. How can we
>>>>>>> decide which "version" of English and Portuguese to include? Sure,
>>>>>>> Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world, but it's not
>>>>>>> because of the roughly 10 million inhabitants of Portugal, it's more due to
>>>>>>> the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil. So, we'd probably include Brazillian
>>>>>>> Portuguese.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But English would be harder. There are more Americans than British,
>>>>>>> but a lot of people are anti-American English or so.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The whole move of including 8 languages. I'm not sure, I'd like to
>>>>>>> know how much space that is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Eduard Gotwig <
>>>>>>> eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2012/9/23 Eduard Gotwig <gotwig@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think about if we can add the 8 most popular languagee packs for
>>>>>>>>> GNOME to the ISO image? There is still space left.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These 8 languages should be the ones, that are available on our
>>>>>>>>> new website:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: English]English
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Français]Français
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Deutsch]Deutsch
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Italiano]Italiano
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Español]Español
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Português]Português
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Polski]Polski
>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Nederlands]Nederlands
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We cant include all, becouse they take too much space I guess.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>> Chris Triantafillis
>>>
>>>
>>
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