Re: FW: Nautilus and Setup Tools

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 11:53:18PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > This is a _perfect_ example of why GNOME can't be the OS. GNOME
> > may have the best font system in the world, but unless the user
> > sees consistent font installation across:
> > 
> >  - KDE
> >  - Mozilla
> >  - StarOffice
> >  - "Native" GNOME apps
> > 
> > Then the user will think "my desktop/GNOME has broken fonts".
> 
> That is a laudable goal.  Is there any chance of this happening ?
> There appear to be alot of obstacles.  Frankly I'd prefer to see
> a potentially gnome specific solution if it could be done within our
> lifetimes.  A cardinal rule of development would seem to apply :
> 
>     It is easier to ask contrition than permission
> 
> Specify a decent mechanism and possibly it will be adopted
> by other projects.

Keith is working on specifying one, but I don't see anyone helping him. 
Here is a mail from him about this issue:

http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/fonts/2001-September/000869.html

Perhaps we can discuss this with him at ALS.

/ Alex