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Paul Jewell <paul@×××××.org> skribis: |
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> On 23/09/14 04:51, Antoine Martin wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Apologies if this link was posted in this thread before, I think it |
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> > eloquently captures some of the concerns about systemd (sense of |
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> > humour required for reading): |
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> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 |
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> > |
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> > Cheers |
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> > Antoine |
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> Thanks for posting this link Antoine. I have not come across it |
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> previously, but I agree entirely with the sentiments expressed in it. |
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The really funny thing, to me, is that, if one wanted to go head to |
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head on the desktop and laptop with the behemoths, one of the most |
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obvious actions would be to build up GNUstep, to actually make a |
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working a Flash alternative, duplicate some of Microsoft’s |
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‘infrastructure’ crapola, and to do some other things that |
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_supposedly_ are top priorities for the FSF. |
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Nothing to do with Linux or init whatsoever, really. |
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Not to mention that fontconfig _guarantees_ that people who try to use |
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GIMP or Inkscape professionally on a POSIX platform will find a random |
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hash instead of a font menu, for instance if they try to use Adobe |
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Opticals. And there is no usable desktop publishing; just some |
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semi-functional and niche applications. |
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Again, nothing to with Linux, systemd, udev, or any of that. And one |
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would think breaking into the Macintosh desktop market was important, |
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since these people already were willing to use something |
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non-Microsoft. |
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Really I think the whole shebang, from FSF on down, gives more lip |
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service than effort towards the foremost of its supposed goals (which |
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are very difficult and not very computer sciency), and so free |
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software remains the domain mostly of people who would rather use |
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something Unix-like even if all OSes were slaveware. |
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To keep this thread Gentoo-specific, here is my unsatisfactory but |
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functioning fontconfig workaround, as an ebuild: |
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https://bitbucket.org/chemoelectric/chemoelectric-overlay/src/5f1f4ef766bf7d0527670170bf625fa72bfc0dc0/media-libs/fontconfig/?at=master |
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Most importantly the workaround disables use of some OpenType name |
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fields by the pattern matcher, because those fields are grossly |
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misused by fontconfig (although in a very computer sciency way -- |
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naive pattern matching). There is some functionality added to allow |
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playing around with search priorities, too; I forget what, because |
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this is work from years ago already, and the software ‘just works’ so |
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I do not fiddle with it anymore. |
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