Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 10 o'clock on Dec 1, Brian Stell wrote:
>
> > Could you suggest cases where an app would want to be informed of font
> > changes but would be against having a connection to the display? This seems
> > like an unusual case.
>
> Any system not using X for graphics.
Under what conditions would such an app want notification
that new X fonts are available?
> Plus, the font installer itself will likely not be an
> X application as it would want to be able to run on
> servers without a display.
Under what conditions would such an app want notification
that new fonts are available?
> > How would remote clients get informed? This is a
> > "commonly supported" case.
>
> Fonts are now a client-side problem; remote clients would
> presumably be informed when the list of fonts changed in their
> file system.
Fonts are a server side (read: remote client) issue if Xft
shares with the X server / X font server. Of is Xft planning
to drop support for these?
> > "you can install new fonts, re-run 'mkfontdir' ..."
> >
> > Not in a system location unless you are running as root
> > (and it is common convention to not run as root whenever
> > possible to avoid accidently damaging the OS).
>
> One can modify the X server's font path to point at a
> directory controlled by the current user.
Which is fine as long as we do not care to share fonts
between users.
--
Brian Stell
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