Fontconfig...

Jason Katz-Brown jason at katzbrown.com
Sat Sep 7 18:47:37 BST 2002


2002 9月 7 土曜日 10:54、Craig Drummond さんは書きました:
> On Saturday 07 September 2002 10:56, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 September 2002 13:32, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:38:29AM +0000, Helio Chissini de Castro 
wrote:
> > > > And even we don't know if qt will have this one in qt 3.1 now...
> > >
> > > It supports Xft2.
> >
> > Ok, i know.. I'm refered about fontconfig now in qt 3.1...
>
> Well it doesn't really matter if Qt uses Xft2 or Xft1. Xfree86 4.3 will
> come with an Xft1 that uses the fonts.conf configuration format. So even if
> Qt is still using Xft1, when this is Xfree 4.3's version then it'll need to
> be configured via fonts.conf.
>
> The idea is to have a configure check for fontconfig, and if this exists
> kcontrol/fonts and kcontrol/kfontinst will alter fonts.conf and not
> xftconfig. The rational being that if fontconfig exists, then it is almost
> certain that the Xft libraries will be built against it.

Would it make sense to save both files? Then you couldn't go wrong, unless 
people get confused why there are two files. To fix this perhaps you could 
add a note to the XftConfig that the correct file is usually fonts.conf.

Cheers,
Jason




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