[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoffrey Lee) writes:

> Yo,
> 
> > > 
> > > Yes I was jus thinking about 0ost ... 
> > > 
> > > > So I don't know how DrakFont goes about getting it's information, but I
> > > > do not that it doesn't do it at install.  It's definitely been manually
> > > > run by me, as I would imagine a Codec finding program would be.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dams??
> > > 
> > > How do you do it, would it be a good idea for DrakFont?
> > 
> > Drakfont looks in every partition that is mounted, and that has the type vfat
> > or ntfs. Then it search the MSDOS.SYS, grep it, and find thewindows directory.
> > And it goes deeper in the font directory. So the detection is fully automatic.
> > What do you want more?
> > 
> 
> What about if the partition is not currently mounted ?

If drakfont didn't find any windows partition, it just says :
[snip]

DrakFont didn't find Windows fonts
There are some reasons for that:
-Windows is not installed on your machine
-Your Windows partition is not mounted; Mount it and try again.
-DrakFont didn't manage to find the Windows fonts directory; Use the `Add Fonts' button

[snap]

I don't want to mount partition without asking the user.

-- 
dam's

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