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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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Now, how would this be handled? Should a user have to specify the |
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ordering of such fonts in a separate file? (Yey, another config + |
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verifying the autogenerated tool?) or perhaps not install them at all? |
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(Not good either, Xnest, different X layout and other such things come |
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in and annoy here) |
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otherways I'm all for standardizing portage installed fonts (that aren't |
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X core) in /usr/share/fonts/<fonttype> , having a tool to run |
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fc-update and otheres. System local fonts ( my import of fonts |
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from adobe, and so on) should go to /usr/local/share/fonts/, as is |
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custom. |
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