From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19365 invoked by uid 1002); 30 May 2003 13:31:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24894 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 13:31:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 15:31:04 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030530153104.5624ca4b.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030530023039.6f117918.seemant@gentoo.org> References: <20030530023039.6f117918.seemant@gentoo.org> Organization: Chaotic X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.5KhxNFeNJXQ'oi" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux X-Archives-Salt: 872efb21-1ff2-419d-85fa-9239e0ccc393 X-Archives-Hash: e1a16e157a3ef1d0ab1c4cb52a4c0a12 --=.5KhxNFeNJXQ'oi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Fri, 30 May 2003 02:30:39 -0700 Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > So the idea he and I discussed was to have this utility (or set of > utilities) to update the fontpaths in /etc/X11/fs/config as well as > /etc/X11/XF86Config (IF the font path is other than unix:/7100 in that > file). > What will such a tool do about ordering of paths? There is a sticky issue here when two paths provide the same fonts, something that is completely legal. Now, anyone who has customized their X to some extent knows this, and many are quite picky about the order. putting Speedo after fixed, TTF before fixed, unscaled before scaled, Xdpi before other dpi. Theese settings are fairly custom, and to give an automatic tool a go at this is annoying. (font-update, following modules-update and others.. ) Now, how would this be handled? Should a user have to specify the ordering of such fonts in a separate file? (Yey, another config + verifying the autogenerated tool?) or perhaps not install them at all? (Not good either, Xnest, different X layout and other such things come in and annoy here) otherways I'm all for standardizing portage installed fonts (that aren't X core) in /usr/share/fonts/ , having a tool to run fc-update and otheres. System local fonts ( my import of fonts from adobe, and so on) should go to /usr/local/share/fonts/, as is custom. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=.5KhxNFeNJXQ'oi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+110aZS9CZTi033kRAkT/AJ9zmXEHadFWzuswrXY+YIrqVHASlgCfX3Pc bGC85/dU4aKUCtotCxv4f28= =Lhr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.5KhxNFeNJXQ'oi--