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On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:07:08 +0200 |
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Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> as Ondrej Grover pointed out on [1], the font.eclass installs font |
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> files and indexes (font.dir, fonts.scale) into sub-dirs of |
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> /usr/share/fonts/, e.g. /usr/share/fonts/terminus. |
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> These directories are naturally not in the fontpath of Xorg server, |
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> and could not be used without adding these with xset fp+. |
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> As said on the bug, the Xserver itself should be abled to find all |
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> fonts, and it's not the duty of the xinitrc/window-manager to collect |
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> all these paths in the users process. |
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Font directories and caching are controlled by fontconfig on modern systems. |
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You don't need to modify fontpath. If you have ancient programs that don't use |
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fontconfig then you can add your own config and not slow down loading of X for |
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everybody else for absolutely no reason. |
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> I'd like to propose a patch to font.eclass to add the newly created |
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> paths to the Xorg server configuration via xorg.conf.d files [2]. |
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> I contacted fonts alias and, as mentioned on the bug and irc, Ben de |
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> Groot (yngwin) does not object and says that font team lead Peter |
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> Volkov (pva) is non-active. |
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> Please review for technical problems (esp. for EPREFIX). |
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> Open questions: |
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> - - Should the (current) default xorg server paths |
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> /usr/share/fonts/{75dpi,100dpi,misc,TTF,OTF,TYPE1} really be excluded? |
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> How would the startup and font lookup perfomance degrade with |
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> multiple conf.d files, containing the same path multiple times? |
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> - - How would already installed font packages see this fix? |
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> Revbump (and stabilize) every one of them? |
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> - - Alternative solutions would be installing fonts in xorg-servers |
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> default paths or add one configuration file that gets newly |
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> assembled on every font_pkg_postinst run. |
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What you want is the font path element catalog and /etc/X11/fontpath.d (bug |
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#185264) which I abandoned when I realized that no one actually uses fontpath |
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anymore, that it caused the startup time to drastically increase with the |
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number of installed fonts, and that adding your own fontpath entries is both |
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trivial and documented everywhere. |
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Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk |
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