RE: RE: Freetype problems under RH7.3

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Tue, May 21, 2002, à 11:32:23AM +0930, Young, Robert a écrit:
> 
> > > If it exists, we can use it.  In fact, we can include 
> > > hard-coded common
> > > font paths as well.  The more the merrier.
> > 
> > Should I put this in diarc? I don't think it belongs in the 
> preferences
> > dialog, and if we include enough defaults for most of the 
> known world, the
> > FAQ can point them to playing with diarc? Mind you, this 
> question is posed
> > before I look at the code...
> 
> Hmmm... Since the reason for this setting would be the lack 
> of a working
> font path with the system (almost a bug in the OS' 
> XF86Config, IMO), thus 
> the lack of a bunch of fonts (a detectable condition), we 
> could even pop a 
> message up (ONCE !) pointing the user to the manual/to the 
> FAQ on how to 
> tweak this diarc setting. This would help us be very comfortable with 
> ignoring PEBKAC/googlelessness/lack of FAQ-reading 
> skills-type of questions 
> on that topic.


It isn't that XF86Config is wrong (IMO) because XF86Config isn't using these
fonts - it has XFS to do that for it. Hence it removes any fonts from the X
font path which don't contain fonts which it knows about. Of course, this
could be the wrong thing to do...

I've attached a patch against 0.90RC1 which looks in xfs's config file for
more font paths. Now I have lots more fonts!!

I haven't done any diarc interfacing - any ideas??

Please feel free to ask for improvements before applying the patch :-)

Regards,
Rob.

freetype_font_path.patch