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 thepreferencesdialog, and if we include enough defaults for most of theknown world, theFAQ can point them to playing with diarc? Mind you, thisquestion is posedbefore 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.
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