Around 20 o'clock on Sep 6, Brian Stell wrote:
> An app acquires a font (eg: automatic font download to the
> browser) and wants to add it to the general font pool (which
> often requires root level privilege for write). The font
> catalogs may also need to be updated which again may require
> root privilege.
Well, the app better have some way of getting root access. I'm leary of
writing any system that lets users install arbitrary files into a shared
area where root might touch them. Font worms anyone?
> Send a message (basically the file name) to a listener process
> which then handles installing the font and informing interested
> clients that a new font is available.
I like this idea though; applications could automatically update their
list of fonts. Right now, only new applications learn about new fonts.
> One way to do the messaging would be via property messages on the
> root window.
As applications may be displayed on many X servers, I think we should
instead focus on notifying all applications using the affected
configuration file. This also permits non-interactive applications to
receive notification to update any internal state.
Can anyone think of a mechanism we could use that wouldn't require a
separate notifier daemon? Is there something clever we could do with
named pipes?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc.
_______________________________________________
Render mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
