On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 20:45 +0200, François Revol wrote: > Le Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:54:50 -0400, Liam R E Quin a écrit : > > On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:15 +0200, François Revol wrote: > > [...] > > > Again, it makes sense for OSes that do have centralized package > > > management... > > > > What you need is font configuration, not package management. > > Try running fc-list on your system. > > Haiku doesn't have font config. It doesn't use X11 either. You could have fontconfig without X11, at least in principle. [...]
> > Probably what you need to specify is a place where applications > > should > > look for fonts - e.g. ~/.fonts - and a way to include a set of fonts > > (a single font for all of Unicode is technically possible, but runs > > into difficulties when you intermix e.g. Korean and Chinese, where > > the > > same Unicode character (code-point) must map into different font/ > > glyphc > > Some OSes have automatic Unicode block remapping to provide fallbacks > for glyphs not present in fonts. Yes. but that's not exactly what I was talking about. [...] > > I'm not sure why you're so worried about people running a themable > > desktop on systems without package management. This is 2010. Yes, > > sure, there are a few hobbyists building their own distributions, but > > In case you didn't read before, I'm thinking about Haiku, which doesn't > yet have centralized package mgmt. Many other OSes don't either. I think the right answer is to add package management to Haiku first, and then use it. [...] > > Haiku doesn't follow most XDG specs either due to not using X11... This is, however, the XDG list... Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
