From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22222 invoked by uid 1002); 30 May 2003 13:25:55 -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 9755 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 13:25:53 -0000 From: Svyatogor Reply-To: svyatogor@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:21:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030530023039.6f117918.seemant@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030530023039.6f117918.seemant@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305301620.32839.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux X-Archives-Salt: c1604ecd-de32-449a-8ca4-04dd40240e96 X-Archives-Hash: 6f73d01f130c8ee15df1d2f60b664103 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 Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list