Fonts in a KDE application

[Albert Astals Cid]

For three reasons:
 - Everybody knows packagers are not perfect and kdeedu is not one of the most 
important packages out there so probably we won't get the right thing done
 - Because if we do like konsole, fonts won't get installed for people that 
install from tarballs, should i remember that tarballs are the ONLY supported 
form of distribution of KDE?
 - What's wrong on calling kfmclient copy $appdata/fonts/<font_name>.ttf 
fonts:/ on the first run of the program that needs the fonts?

Albert

PS: I might be wrong, but i got the impression konsole puts the fonts in 
$appdata/fonts and makes the user do the work of installing fonts on their 
system.

A Dimecres 06 Abril 2005 10:25, Andy Fawcett va escriure:
> Ugh, top posting :(
>
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:04, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > kfmclient copy <font_name>.ttf fonts:/System/
> > works in my system, probably because i have
> >         <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
> > on my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and needs no extra command and no reboot.
> >
> > About the installing thing i've been thinking the "best" way can be that
> > "make install" installs the fonts to $appdata/fonts and then on starting
> > the program for first time it does
> > kfmclient copy $appdata/fonts/<font_name>.ttf fonts:/System/
> > that gives us a problem with space because fonts are found twice in the
> > system but i suppose that makes life easier for packagers?
>
> Why not just install the fonts in *exactly* the same way as the font is
> installed for konsole?
>
> Leave it to the packagers to adjust this for their own particular packaging
> method, they already have experience of this from the konsole font.
>
> A.
>
> > A Dimecres 06 Abril 2005 09:48, James Richard Tyrer va escriure:
> > > Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > > > On April 1, 2005 12:02 pm, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > > >>Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 02:47 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf:
> > > >>>install: font_name.ttf
> > > >>>        kfmclient copy font_name.ttf fonts:/
> > > >>
> > > >>Please never ever make any part of the build process depend on a GUI
> > > >>application.
> > > >>
> > > >>mfg
> > > >>	Leo
> > > >
> > > > mfg?
> > > > and what do you suggest then please?
> > >
> > > I find that on my system that:
> > >
> > > 	kfmclient copy <font_name>.ttf fonts:/System/
> > >
> > > copys the file to "$KDEDIR/share/fonts" which doesn't seem correct to
> > > me.  And, it didn't update the Fontmap file in the directory.
> > >
> > > Are there bugs in KFontInst again??
> > >
> > > IAC, if you copy the font file to "$KDEDIR/share/fonts/TTF" then
> > > FontConfig should find it if the system is set up correctly.  But, I
> > > found that on my system I needed to have:
> > >
> > > 	fc-cache
> > >
> > > in my: "rc.local" script for it to find new fonts and that requires a
> > > reboot -- too much like Windows. :-\
> > >
> > > I don't know how to make FontConfig do a rescan except to run [as
> > > root]:
> > >
> > > 	fc-cache
> > >
> > > So, there are unanswered questions.  But, at least I know what I don't
> > > know about this.