Hello, There is some problems about xfontpath.
1. No longer maintained. Its upstream website has disappeared. 2. It cannot handle differences between X servers. XDarwin server can handle TrueType fonts and TTCap syntax at fints.dir(right?). In contrast Xquartz not only is unable to display TrueType fonts but confuses when TTCap syntax is used in one of fonts.dir in the font path. The xfontpath therefore need to exclude incompatible directories when Xquartz is used. 3. The right place to run "xfontpath enable" is not a profile.d script but a xinitrc. 4. Must not invoked unless "$DISPLAY" = :0.0. 5. Should not depend on x11. Fonts depend on xfontpath and therefore on x11 but some of them are also used by non-X11 programs, namely ghostscript. The 3., 4. and 5. can be easily fixed but the 2. is more complicated. At least we make an incompatible change to xfontpath.conf format. It is desirable, though not necessary, that xfontpath be able to detect which X server is running. It can be implemented by patching against XDarwin to pass some information to xfontpath via environment variables. I propose that we merge xfontpath and my xinitrc into base-files. If perl is unnacceptable there, it can be reimplemented in shell or shell+awk script. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
