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

 

Ok, not exactly +1, but +0.5

I have failed several times and fell back on CD.



On September 24, 2012 at 4:25 PM Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Chris Triantafillis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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> > Chris Triantafillis
> >
> >
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