Antoine Martin wrote: > Point taken, however I would argue that the location currently used as > default is even less likely to be right. > Doesn't the LSB say anything about this? it would make a better default. > > As suggested by Adam Tkac in another email, > --with-default-font-path=same locations that the vncserver script uses > Seems like a saner default than using: > --with-fontdir=/usr/src/wherever.. > > Especially when, as far as I can tell, these options are not accessible > from the convenient top-level build-xorg-* scripts as they are down in > ./xorg/xorg-server-*/configure > > It just seems silly to require all users to stumble on something that is > so trivial. Well, the ultimate idea is to package this stuff so that most everyone will be using the 'vncserver' script to start Xvnc instead of starting it by hand, so "all users" is overstating the problem. You'll find that most distributions of Xvnc from other projects also have bogus embedded font paths.
It's easy enough to build a more sane font path into Xvnc, and I'd certainly be on board with that if we could figure out what path to use. I can't find any reference to a standard font path in the LSB documentation. Barring that, any path we embedded would be very system-specific and, unless the user just happened to be using that system, it would be just as useless for their environment. Note that the default font path used in 'vncserver' is dynamically computed based on what font paths your system uses. You can't just pass a string of all possible font paths to Xvnc, because if some of them don't exist, it will fail to start. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
