[sldev] jira for open source fonts to be bundled with SL client

[Corax]

Matthew Dowd wrote:
>> Don't know... I definitely don.t want to see an extra 15-20 meg added to 
>> every update though! :D
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> In general, I'm not in favour of overly large downloads - but given the amount of bandwidth just *running* the SL viewer eats up (downloading textures etc.), 15-20Meg does not seem that much. Anyone with an internet connection which has serious problems (either in terms of speed or download limits) downloading an extra 20meg for an updated viewer once or twice a month, is likely to have issues running the viewer in the first place.
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> Matthew
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Some of our users are running SL from a dialup connection.  Yes, I know 
that sounds silly, but for them it's either that or not at all, and it 
does actually work if you are careful.  An extra 20 megs might be a 
major problem for them, while these people have headaches enough just 
with things as they are now.  I think it would be good to have any 
plus-size downloads as an option, and not bundled with the viewer 
download.  Also the point has been made that some of these fonts are not 
very good quality, and might be seen as a poor substitute.

I have fonts covering unique ranges on my system (Linux) that show up 
automatically in other apps but not in SL.  Why is that?  Perhaps 
getting the viewer to use the fonts already present would be a good 
priority.