On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 02:19, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Rob Weir"> > > > Fedora still uses a font server by default? Why? > > I asked about this a while back. Too much work/churn to change it without a > lot of obvious positive impact, I was told. They should blast a can of Free > Software monkeys on it or something.
Having it distinct might be good for a while longer. I'm still waiting for someone to write a font server which finds fonts via fontconfig rather than fonts.dir files. And, yeah, it would need to convert X font names into PS/TTF font names, but that would be fine. The operational nightmare is having two distinct font finding paths and two distinct font installation procedures. [1] [1] Or more, if you use GhostScript, xpdf and OpenOffice. -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 Australian Academic & Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
