From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11513 invoked by uid 1002); 30 May 2003 13:44:47 -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 1818 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 13:44:46 -0000 From: Svyatogor Reply-To: svyatogor@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:40:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030530023039.6f117918.seemant@gentoo.org> <20030530153104.5624ca4b.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030530153104.5624ca4b.spider@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305301640.12626.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux X-Archives-Salt: 8bcbaaf6-595c-4215-b4bd-c4e7ef8ff8be X-Archives-Hash: cc496d5216c4bb7cf7af3981dc08ee17 On Friday 30 May 2003 13:31, Spider wrote: > 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.. ) I abosultely agree with you! Also, if I put localised fonts after generic I lose local glyphs totaly and completely. So it is extremely important to have some way to specify the order of the fonts. -- Sergey Kuleshov Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list