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Subject: Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [PATCH FOR REVIEW] fix for fontmanager when no
fonts are installed - RHBZ#862355,
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:48:18 +0100
From: Jiri Vanek jva...@redhat.com
To: Phil Race philip.r...@oracle.com
CC: 2d-dev
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Subject: Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [PATCH FOR REVIEW] fix for fontmanager when no fonts are installed -
RHBZ#862355,
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:48:18 +0100
From: Jiri Vanek jva...@redhat.com
To: Phil Race philip.r...@oracle.com
CC: 2d-dev
Ugh, sorry for delay, I had to find some free-time to attempt 2:)
I have kept NoFontsFound exception which is thrown out of the Win32 or x11
font manager.
It is then cough in SunFontMAnager and fallback font is provided for OpenJDK. I must admit that my
win32 hacks were not completely tested
I'd like to find something to make this more survivable, but
my main point is that having only Font.createFont() work and not system
fonts
is a configuration not worth supporting. Its too fragile.
Your suggestion below makes it less fragile, but its still not widely
useful.
If no one calls
Not sure if last email was final refuse ;) - I would like to continue in fixing this. From current
trialogue I guess I have several possible ways of fixing it -
- Add another font-manager, which will be possible to enable via
sun.font.fontmanager
- add command line switch which will enable
Well this seems like a really narrow use case for an extremely rare system
misconfiguration. It wouldn't help the 99.999% of apps which expect to
kick off AWT or Swing.
And can you ensure that nothing in the app, or in the implementation makes
the (reasonable) expectation that there are other
2012/11/12 Phil Race philip.r...@oracle.com
Well this seems like a really narrow use case for an extremely rare system
misconfiguration. It wouldn't help the 99.999% of apps which expect to
kick off AWT or Swing.
And can you ensure that nothing in the app, or in the implementation makes
the
