Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available >>> font path folders and that should be all. >> >> It isn't that simple. > > It is for the majority of applications.
It seems very likely that in the majority of applications, nowadays tft monitors are being used. >> With what you can get from dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config, the >> fonts don't look too great and they look really awful in emacs-frames. > > (...) > > This can be a corner case that needs from manual intervention. Just google for it and you'll find that many ppl have that problem. Why is the possibility that someone uses a tft monitor not considered in the system wide font configuration? I don't remember if you're even being asked anything about font configuration during installation --- if you are (and wouldn't it be nice if you were?), wouldn't it be nice if it gave you a choice of settings to optimise the rendering of fonts for a tft monitor? Did you look at the configuration files under /etc? An lcdfilter doesn't appear anywhere in there. What sense does it make to completely ignore settings that could improve the rendering of fonts for probably the majority of users? > For instance, I also had to create a "~/.fonts.conf" so Firefox does a > proper font replacement but this kind of tweaks are not the norm and > TrueType fonts are detected by the system and applications without a > hitch. And they look like crap on a tft. Sure your replacing of some fonts for particular applications is your special case. Sure fonts are detected and can be used. That doesn't mean that they should look like crap. It's something I expect to work right out of the box, after asking me questions about it if needed. >> It's arguable whether there should be some more options given by >> fontconfig-config, including the ability to set user-specific defaults. > > It's always difficult to document the special cases :-) Using a tft monitor isn't a special case anymore, is it? And if it isn't, perhaps there should be a bugreport about it, requesting an extension of the options presented. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gs17jpb....@yun.yagibdah.de
