On 02/09/2006, at 4:17 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > I think you do have to handle [setting fonts] on a per-application > basis. > Perhaps KDE and GNOME apps have some common scheme that gets shared > via their respective desktops, but I haven't investigated this.
How about fontconfig? I speak with staggering ignorance of Gnome and KDE setup here, but I have been involved recently in pan-Linux discussions [1] [2] on choosing, packaging and configuring fonts for different languages (and in fixing the fonts to display my language, which cheerfully breaks most fonts and Unicode setups), and fontconfig was often mentioned as a way to set fonts for the whole system. Also from [1]: > Generic fonts.conf configuration file > > A Linux distribution can fine tune the precise font that will be > used to render a specific language/script using the configuration > files found in /etc/fonts/ > > We made a list of such existing configuration files, at Software/ > Fonts/fonts.conf. If your distribution is not listed, please add > the corresponding configuration file If you are stuck without Lucida Grande, the best (for coverage and display) free-software pan-Unicode font currently is Dejavu. [3] But Lucida Grande definitely does it better. I hope this is useful. :) from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN [1] Some of our data is here: http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Software_2fFonts [2] More specify info on the discussions and results [3] http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
