Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux

[Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 30 May 2003 09:30, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> OK, the above combination, as we all know, blows dogs.  Having said that, I
> have some ideas.  First, to reiterate as in my last e-mail: xfree-4.3.0-r3
> is moving towards *NOT* installing *ANY* fonts at all.  All the xfree
> built-in fonts will move to separate packages in media-fonts.  Additionally
> *ALL* fonts will be in /usr/share/fonts, rather than
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (and I had to hold back from exaggerating it to
> say /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/R6/include/lib/X/X11/X11R6/misc/lib/fonts :P).

Hello!
If  you don't mind me giving some comments on it. The idea to move all the 
fonts to /usr/share/fonts is great and actually it is necessary, cause 
otherwise the whole font tre is a big mess.

However, I am not so sure about the first part of the suggestion, which is not 
installing any fonts with xfree. When I first installed gentoo, I remember 
being very please with the fact that after emerging xfree I got a proper 
support of cyrillic fonts staringht away. I did not have it in any other 
distro: they all required me to install additional packages to get something 
different from default fonts, which have very ugly cyrullic chars or don't 
support them at all.

What I am trying basically to say, is that users should be getting reasonable 
set of fonts, with proper support of their local chars right after installing 
xfree and not have to search in portage to get at least some fonts with their 
local glyphs.

Regards,
-- 
Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
Let the Force be with us!


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