On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >However, although I think it will cut down the number of end-user > >complaints to this list, I'm not sure that it will make users happier. > >With this fix, if they have a broken font setup the server will start, > >but they will not get the fonts that they are expecting. They will be > >unhappy, but I think that fewer people will complain. > > I think just as many people would complain, only that the problem > would be more obscure in bug reports.
They would at least have /something/ on the screen. If I were a newbie I'd rather have to wrestle with Mozilla/Opera/Phoenix/Galeon/Konqueror with ugly fonts while searching for info than having a text screen that would be just as useful as a non-existent monitor ;) (Yes, it's not a good solution - I suggested it partly as a provocation and apparently it worked :) ) > I don't like the idea of the X server guessing where fonts are > either. The solution IMHO to font related problems like this, is > to analyze why the font configuration is broken, and come up with > ways to make sure those problems can't happen if possible. Much better idea - wasn't sure what people's opinion would be on fixing what is actually not a documentation problem or configuration problem but a user interface problem so I didn't dare go that far. > Like my mkfontdir patch for example. It forces the fonts.dir and > encodings.dir files, when written to be mode 644 always. This Sounds like a good idea. > could be turned into a configurable option as well, but I Please don't! XFree86 does not suffer from a lack of options ;) > couldn't think of any reason why someone would want different > behaviour, and nobody was able to provide a reasonable reason for > me why the patch shouldn't be applied to CVS. > > I'll probably post it for discussion on the devel@ list soon for > people to comment on and make suggestions. :) > shalt thou move towards indenting thy next line. (The Holy Editor of Antinoch) Shouldn't that be Antioch? -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
