Around 20 o'clock on Feb 16, Thomas Zander wrote: > why provide a config file that only defines defaults?
It's a lot like the app-defaults files shipped by many Xt applications, fonts.conf is essentially part of the "normal" fontconfig installation and provides settings as required for normal operation. It can be entirely overridden by applications or users setting the FONTCONFIG_FILE or FONTCONFIG_PATH environment variables, so embedding the configuration inside the library wouldn't be appropriate; it's always possible someone would want or need to use a completely different font configuration. > If you don't intend to change this (by moving the current contents of > fonts.conf to the applications as 'hardcoded') for the following version > at least provide a local.conf with the contents of what is now in the > fonts.conf. Current fontconfig CVS installs a local.conf file with suitable XML boilerplate to make adding stuff there easier than it is today. I'm hoping this will reduce confusion in the future. One additional possibility would be to add examples enclosed in comments for common operations, but many of those really belong in ~/.fonts.conf instead. -keith _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
