David Dawes writes: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:21:43PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > > >Whenever the server terminates with a FatalError() it tells the user > >to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This creates an enormous amount of traffic here even if it is a user > >problem has been answered several times already - like our all time > >favourite "cannot find font 'fixed'". > > My conclusion from this is that the XFree86 server should handle this > condition better. I thought that using the 'builtin' font stuff might > have been a good way to do that, but unfortunately Juliusz has found > that it's going to require more time/work than expected. >
This will only reduce the number of bug reports not eliminate it. Not all applications have a fallback heuristic all the way down to the 'fixed' font. If only this font is available many applications will refuse to run with an XRequest error on font or an even less conclusive error messages. This will then be posted here and it will be much harder to track down. Besides this, the same FatalError() is called due to other stupid user configuration bugs - like using the wrong driver. So we still have to deal with errors in configuration tools which we didn't provide or user stupidity when editing the config file. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
