Re: Familiy name in Alias and alias brokeness.

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

Aliases are needed because applications need to hardcode a default
inside. They can't use any font name because they don't know what fonts
are available. Without aliases, apps will have no way of setting the
default font.

Chema

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:12, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> >>>>> On 04 Feb 2003 11:26:42 -0500,
> >>>>> "CC" == Chema Celorio <chema ximian com> wrote:
> 
> CC> Because font aliases in fontconfig are not part of the "list of fonts", 
> CC> you have to create them. See gp_fontmap_load_fontconfig that is where we
> CC> get the list of fonts and then in gp_fontmap_add_aliases we add the
> CC> aliases.
> 
> I know that. it's no problem. sorry. my question is why
> is_alias is necessary.
> I read Bug#103857. I assume it has the same font name in the
> dialog, right? if so, right now the alias fonts in
> gnome-rint is given for fontconfig. gnome-print shouldn't
> have owned alias font. I mean something like not having in
> fontconfig, because it may breaks WYSIWYG stuff. we killed
> XLFD stuff now. so we can use the same font name for
> displaying and printing.
> And I think the alias fonts as Sans, Serif, and Monospace
> should be shown in the font dialog, in other words,
> gnome_font_family_list() and gnome_font_list() should
> handles them -- when gnome-print might use the font through
> PangoFont stuff, they will be unnecessary, though --
> is_alias apparently bother it. if you have an idea which
> it's needed, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Akira TAGOH  : tagoh gnome gr jp  / Japan GNOME Users Group
> at gclab org : tagoh gnome-db org / GNOME-DB Project
>              : tagoh redhat com   / Red Hat, Inc.
>              : tagoh debian org   / Debian Project
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Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>