Hi Alan, > The packages that make those subdirectories would add links to the > subdirectories to /etc/X11/fontpath.d, or you'd decide that legacy > X apps don't need to see these fonts, and do nothing, leaving them > accessible only to apps using fontconfig, like GTK/QT apps. > > >> option B: >> Create sub-directory in fontpath.d. The sub-directorys are locale >> category, it maybe look like: ko_KR.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8, >> en_US.UTF-8. In these locale-sub-directory create sylike to link the >> really fonts path. Current contents in fontpath.d could be >> put into default or C(locale) sub-directory which include default X11 >> xorg fonts. >> > > I don't believe the code will handle subdirectories automatically, so > if you did this, you would then need to add those subdirectories to > the font path. (Actually, I wonder if you made the locale subdirectory > be named catalogue:ko_KR.UTF-8 if it would work - that's something you > can look into if you desire.) > Yes, if I do handle subdirectories , they would be named catalogue:ko_KR.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8... and I'm thinking it still need a subdirectory named "default".
Do you know which module/files handle to read "/etc/X11/fontpath.d" and get the font path? I'd rather to have a look how it implement and to see if it's possible to add additional codes to handle subdirectories. Thanks! Regards, William -- ============================================================== William Xue Asian Globalization Center Sun Microsystems China Engineering & Research Institute (Office Phone): (86)10-8261-8200 ext. 83958 (Direct Line) : (86)10-6267-7958 (Email) : Wei.Xue at Sun.com (My Blog) : http://blogs.sun.com/weixue ==============================================================
