Fonts in a KDE application

Leo Savernik l.savernik at aon.at
Wed Apr 6 20:21:37 BST 2005


Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 20:26 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf:
[...]
> > > there are NO problems as this is NOT used except in the edu
> > > playground!!!
> >
> > Playground? So this hack is never meant to be distributed as part of the
> > KDE release tarballs? Then you're free to do whatever you like.
>
> <sigh> I am asking here HOW to do it correctly!!!
>
> We would like to install some free fonts so they can be used in edu
> programs. That means the program can find the font, installed from source
> or packages. This hack is what must be improved.
> I thought that kde-core-devel was the place to debate things like that,

Yes, it's the right place. Yet KDE *must* be buildable without any sort of 
X-Server running, also from the release tarballs distributed by KDE itself.

So what's wrong with, e. g. doing it the same way as konsole (and document it 
properly in the README, or INSTALL).

mfg
	Leo
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