Re: FW: Nautilus and Setup Tools

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:48:28AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes: 
> >     Font installation.
> 
> Standard programming rule: the same info simply can't be stored in two
> places without screwing over everyone. Two copies = can and will get
> out of sync.
Absolutely.
 
> > We don't have solutions to these for gnome-2.0.  However, IMHO
> > the eventual solution would belong in the core gnome platform.
> 
> Blargh, no! :-( There has got to be at least basic font installation
> and setup on the X level.

'basic' setup is not going to cut it.   A solution is going to
require per user, per display, level configurability.  It needs to
address the plethora of areas that interact with fonts.  X is
certainly not sufficient.  Mappings to printer fonts are an integral
part of any solution.