On 1 Feb 2009, Nicolas Mailhot uttered the following: > From a distribution point of view, apps which use fontconfig almost > never present problems (because fontconfig will do all kinds of smart > stuff like substituting missing fonts transparently), while apps that > use core fonts have a long continuing history of crashing at the > slightest opportunity (with users complaining at the distribution > instead of upstream).
Seconded :/ > I think the Fedora 12 cycle will probably start by mass bug-filling > against apps that need those symlinks. The annoying pedant in me looks at the 'exposing all our fonts' goal and wonders how you're planning to expose metafont fonts in fontconfig ;) but I guess if you define 'fonts' to be 'fonts that freetype can understand' this is a reasonable goal. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
