Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 00:07 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>> bash-4.0$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
>>> bash-4.0$ ls -al 10*
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 13 01:24 10-autohint.conf
>>> -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Dec 13 01:24
>>> 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Dec 13 01:24
>>> 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 13 01:24
>>> 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 13 01:24
>>> 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
>> We removed them because it didn't make sense to have all of them present,
>> since they give conflicting settings - "My pixels are ordered Blue/Green/Red
>> left-to-right, and Red/Green/Blue left-to-right, and Blue/Green/Red top to
>> bottom and Red/Green/Blue top to bottom." - and the default configuration
>> shouldn't assume which is right for your hardware. Unless your monitor is
>> possessed such that it's head is spinning constantly at a high speed, all
>> four cannot be true simultaneously. You should pick the subset that's
>> right for your system if you want to customize things with fonts.conf files.
>
> I'm a bit puzzled with the way this thread is going. Are folks
> seriously suggesting that all users should manually create symbolic
> links in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ after having installed OpenSolaris as a
> prerequisite for having acceptable looking fonts in Firefox?
I did say "*if* you want to customize things with fonts.conf files."
I believe most users should use the GNOME Appearance Preferences instead,
though I'm not sure if Firefox recognizes those, being a non-GNOME
application. I've added desktop-discuss to the cc list so the people
who work on Firefox can comment. (This whole thread really belongs
there - sending every bug about every piece of software in the OS to
indiana-discuss does not scale.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
