More fontconfig troubles and incompatibilities (Re: KDE Fonts)

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

Jorge Martin wrote:

> I found that deleting .fonts.chache and starting KDE work, the same if
> you want to open a KDE app, delete .fonts-cache and then open the app,
> garnome will take over .fonts-cache again so you have to do these
> procedure everytime you want a KDE app.
>
>  
If this is the problem, then maybe we should apply a patch on to Owen 
Taylor's patch to use [.]fonts-cache.2 or [.]fonts-cache.1.1 instead of 
.fonts-cache.1, because of the incompatible changes in those files (the 
addition of "fulldir"). This was one of the suggestions Owen Taylor made 
along with the patch, but I am not quite sure why it is not implemented 
(maybe because he wanted to keep Keith Packard in charge of fontconfig 
versions).

As for the concrete problem, you might try removing your old 
libfontconfig.so used by KDE and replacing it with the one shipped with 
GARNOME. Of course, if there's a Xft1 and Xft2, there might be some 
incompatibilities, so be sure to have your backup ready.


Regards,
Danilo