Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 3 o'clock on Nov 30, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> > Just as an example, would it make sense to have xfs automatically
> > look at all the dirs in its config, and have
> > mkfontdir/ttmkfdir/etc. code built in?
>
> That's pretty much what Xft does -- you *can* build a system-wide cache
> file in each font directory, but if you don't bother, Xft will manage with
> a per-user cache file in each home directory. So, with Xft, it really can
> be as simple as dropping fonts in a directory.
Xft is a client side feature and runs in a user process
with that user's privledges.
How could Xft update a system wide resource unless the
files/dirs were unprotected (world writable) or the
user was root?
If a user tells an application to download a font what
API would the app use to add it to the font cache?
When new fonts become available how do apps get informed
of this?
--
Brian Stell
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