Fonts in a KDE application

[Craig Drummond]

> 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.

Hmmm...strange. To locate the system font directory, kio fonts queries 
fontconfig for its list of folders. The default, and preferred, folder is 
"/usr/local/share/fonts/". If the default is in the list of folders, then 
this is what is used. If not, then the list is checked for the 1st sub folder 
of "/usr/local/share/", and if none found then default is used and added to 
fontconfig. So if your KDEDIR is /usr/local, then $KDEDIR/share/fonts is the 
correct place. If $KDEDIR is /usr, /opt, etc. then something is a bit odd 
($KDEDIR is never looked at/used!)

No Fontmap file is created in the font directory. Fontmaps are created in 
$HOME/.fonts for non-root, and /etc/fonts/ for root (and this one should be 
added to Ghoscript's main Fontmap file)

But, does installing the font work? (Afterall that is the main purpose!)

Craig.