Between seeing Tim's work on the SMF dependencies and looking into
the various dependencies X clients should be listing on the fonts
they use, I've wondered if we should define attributes to be added
to font files listing their names?
Most users search for and most software does not list a dependency
on "VeraMoBd.ttf" but either the classic XLFD font pattern of
"-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1"
or the modern fontconfig name of "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold"
or even the full font name of "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold".
We can easily automate extracting these names when building the X font
packages to place into a pkgmogrify file to attach the attributes.
Would this be a useful thing to do, and if so, what attribute names
should be used? These wouldn't be opensolaris specific - XLFD font
names apply to any platform with X11, fontconfig is cross-platform to
X11, Mac & Windows platforms at least, and the full font name is just
a basic property of the font - so the opensolaris.* prefix doesn't
seem to fit.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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