Re: User fonts dir standard?

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

Debian's system XftConfig file includes ~/.xftconfig

Pango checks ~/.pangorc and ~/.pango.aliases

These aren't font directories, but are points for some user configuration.

The user can use `xset` et al. to change the font path, but this is server
dependent.

If FreeDesktop should look at this, there are a few more details to look at
too:
  * Backdrop format, location, and detection:
    -  A format is needed for grouping of backdrop images into galleries.
        This can be used to present nicer grouping of available images.
    -  A location for system backdrops and for user-installed backdrops,
        so the confiuration client can find them rather than sending the user
        into the depths of the filesystem to hunt for them.
    -  A means for clients to detect the backdrop of the current workspace,
        including modifications such as tiling and scaling.
       As a matter of usability, it should be possible to set not only the
        the workspace backdrop, but also the icons shown on a workspace.
        Having a different backdrops per workspace, by default, shows the user
        that switching workspaces, by whatever means, is going to a different
        place. As it is a different place, and should be useful as a place to
        do different work, the icons present should also be different.

  . . . Now I forget what the others were. I'll send when I remember.
        (Little sleep and distracted on irc, darn.)

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:40:41AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Is there anything approaching a standard for placement of fonts in a user's
> home directory? FreeDesktop doesn't seem to have covered this.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
>    I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style...    
>                    and she didn't speak to me for a week.                   

Cheers,
Greg Merchan
-- 
"_____ means never having to leave $HOME."