Re: Fonts in Gnome 2.0 Alpha

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 21:02, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> fflewddur <fflewddur dropline net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 23:11, Chris Chabot wrote:
> > > Browsing the gtk 1.3 lists, i see it is a 'known gtk 1.3 problem' (no 
> > > solutions yet). However it is interesting to note that whithout AA, the 
> > > ttf fonts are shown (though with the 'Cannot load font for XLFD '-font 
> > > string-' error), and with AA enabled, the TTF fonts are not shown...
> > > 
> > > Anyways had this problem and know how to fix this?
> > > 
> > 
> > that's odd.  without aa, i can use my true-type fonts perfectly. 
> > however, when i enable aa i lose all of my standard fonts and instead
> > get the list nautilus 1.0.x uses when you select the "smoother graphics"
> > option.  i'm using slackware 8.0 (heavily modified) with xfree86 4.1 and
> > freetype 2.0.6.
> 
> You need to point Xft at the directories where the fonts live by
> editing /etc/X11/XftConfig (or, you may find it in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11).

Shouldn't our Gnome 2.0 install process gather all this information
automatically so that users get working installations?  It would
be good to have a scan phase.  I think the gnomeprint or gnomeprintui
build process does something like this, although we really need a 
tool that users or root can run and point at various fonts trees.

> [Eventually xfs/the Xserver will be fixed to use the same configuration]

Sounds like it is too late to get the XServer to do this for the 
XFree86 4.2.0 release that will be tagged tomorrow.