Around 12 o'clock on Dec 1, Brian Stell wrote:
> > Any system not using X for graphics. > > Under what conditions would such an app want notification > that new X fonts are available? The font configuration mechanism is designed to be used by all font consumers in the system; printer drivers, web-page graphics builders, etc. It's not an X-specific library. Building yet another font configuration system that supports only X (or only one X application for that matter) is not at all what I have in mind. > > 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? It must perform the notification service, or something will be forced to poll. > 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? I thought we were discussing mechanisms suitable for use with client-side fonts. A mechanism for notifying of server-side font configuration changes could indeed be built using existing X tools. It's a bit tricky to use property changes, as there's only one window guaranteed to exist and you really don't want every application requesting PropertyNotify events -- there are a *lot* of properties on the root window that change all of the time. The notification mechanism could be built into xset (and other apps that modify the X font path). > > 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. You can't have it both ways -- either the user has administrative rights to modify the system font configuration, in which case they have rights to modify the X related font configuration, or they don't. Two separate cases that must be handled differently. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
