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On Friday 30 May 2003 13:31, Spider wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 May 2003 02:30:39 -0700 |
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> Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> wrote: |
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> > So the idea he and I discussed was to have this utility (or set of |
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> > utilities) to update the fontpaths in /etc/X11/fs/config as well as |
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> > /etc/X11/XF86Config (IF the font path is other than unix:/7100 in that |
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> > file). |
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> What will such a tool do about ordering of paths? There is a sticky |
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> issue here when two paths provide the same fonts, something that is |
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> completely legal. Now, anyone who has customized their X to some extent |
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> knows this, and many are quite picky about the order. putting Speedo |
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> after fixed, TTF before fixed, unscaled before scaled, Xdpi before |
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> other dpi. |
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> Theese settings are fairly custom, and to give an automatic tool a go at |
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> this is annoying. (font-update, following modules-update and others.. ) |
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I abosultely agree with you! Also, if I put localised fonts after generic I |
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lose local glyphs totaly and completely. So it is extremely important to have |
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some way to specify the order of the fonts. |
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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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