fontconfig +xfs ? or only fontconfig ....

[Marie-Noelle Dauphin]

thank's for your response  James ....
> Marie-Noelle Dauphin wrote:
> > Hello , Since several months ,  I have compiled konstruct.kde  with qt  in
> > the same time... . since there is a new version , i compil it  with the same
> > method ..
> > 
> > I noticed that sometimes for one version (for example kde3.2 ),
> > 
> > kde use fontconfig AND the fonts of the xfs server  ( I see that in kde
> > control configuration , there 's plenty of fonts which are not not defined in
> > the /etc/fonts.conf but in the xfs server
> > 
> FontConfig will search directory trees recursively so if you have:
> 
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> 	/usr/share/fonts
> 	~/.fonts
> 

I m' sure that kde use fontconfig AND xfs ....
because If i do a : xset -fp tcp/server:7100 , there is less fonts in kde 
configuration( before : 50 and  after:  20 ...) this  shows me that it was X 
Fonts of xfs and not fonts of fontconfig ....


> it will find most of them, but if running [as root]:
> 
> 	fc-cache -v
> 
> doesn't list all of your fonts, then add the directories to: 
> "/etc/fonts/local.conf".  Remember, you only need the root of a tree.
> >

when I run : fc-list I don't list as much fonts as kde list  in kde 
configuration
 
> > and for another version ( for example kde 3.3)  kde only use fontconfig ....
> > 
> > It 's annoying for users .... because when I change the kde version they
> > loose fonts ...It would be all the time the same fonts ...
> > 
> > 
> > can you explain me that  ? I don't find compilation option for that in kde
> > ....
> 
> It is Qt that uses FontConfig, so it is necessary that you Qt is linked against
> FontConfig. Older versions of Qt's 'configure' script had problems finding 
> FontConfig if it wasn't installed in: /usr/X11R6.  That might be your problem > if you built from source.

in the configure.log I see that fontconfig is found ...
> 
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> JRT
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