Comments on: Snow Leopard’s shrinking mail.app: Mystery solved http://www.hawkwings.net/2008/06/25/snow-leopards-shrinking-mailapp-mystery-solved/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:38:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bob http://www.hawkwings.net/2008/06/25/snow-leopards-shrinking-mailapp-mystery-solved/#comment-327901 Bob Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:12:04 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2008/06/25/snow-leopards-shrinking-mailapp-mystery-solved/#comment-327901 - You can install Mac OS X with the additional languages you only need. - You can remove languages from applications using the Finder. - On Leopard: Mail.app bundle is 290 MB on my Mac o Number of nib "files" in Mail.app per language: 79 o Number of languages: 18 on my Mac o Average size of the designable.nib files I looked at: 80 KB That amounts to 110 MB. Not that bad. But I don't know if designable.nib file are as big in general on Snow Leopard - You can install Mac OS X with the additional languages you only need.

- You can remove languages from applications using the Finder.

- On Leopard: Mail.app bundle is 290 MB on my Mac

o Number of nib “files” in Mail.app per language: 79

o Number of languages: 18 on my Mac

o Average size of the designable.nib files I looked at: 80 KB

That amounts to 110 MB. Not that bad. But I don’t know if designable.nib file are as big in general on Snow Leopard

]]> By: Mike http://www.hawkwings.net/2008/06/25/snow-leopards-shrinking-mailapp-mystery-solved/#comment-327890 Mike Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:28:26 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2008/06/25/snow-leopards-shrinking-mailapp-mystery-solved/#comment-327890 There used to be three files in those nibs: classes.nib, info.nib, and objects.nib. Only objects.nib (or keyedobjects.nib) is used at runtime. Accordingly, they might as well be removed and some scrupulous developers do remove them, although most don't bother. Apple itself seems sometimes to do so and sometimes not. In the Safari package most of the nibs in Contents/Resources have been cleaned out; most of those down a level in Contents/Resources/English.lproj haven't been. One wonders just how much all these would amount to over an installation. I don't suppose it's negligible, but I find it difficult to believe it amounts to very much. I sceptical that this is the answer either. FWIW, I would like it if Apple had a kind of built-in analogue of Monolingual, so that one could strip unused languages out easily. That adds up to a serious amount of wasted space on disk. There used to be three files in those nibs: classes.nib, info.nib, and objects.nib.

Only objects.nib (or keyedobjects.nib) is used at runtime. Accordingly, they might as well be removed and some scrupulous developers do remove them, although most don’t bother. Apple itself seems sometimes to do so and sometimes not. In the Safari package most of the nibs in Contents/Resources have been cleaned out; most of those down a level in Contents/Resources/English.lproj haven’t been.

One wonders just how much all these would amount to over an installation. I don’t suppose it’s negligible, but I find it difficult to believe it amounts to very much.

I sceptical that this is the answer either.

FWIW, I would like it if Apple had a kind of built-in analogue of Monolingual, so that one could strip unused languages out easily. That adds up to a serious amount of wasted space on disk.

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