Benjamin, At the typography BoF at GUADEC you asked why the GNOME font settings where routed through XSETTINGS and not by writing to an XML fontconfig config file. I said there's probably no reason for that and that's just the way Owen or whoever did the work did it.
But then I thought about it more and I'm confident that it's because up until about 2007 / 2008 we didn't have file monitoring in glib, and as such Gtk+ couldn't pickup fontconfig changes (including config changes) on the fly. So apps had to be restarted for font settings to take effect, which is a non-starter. Thought, it's still possible to write a config file, send a XSETTINGS signal, then on the client side reload fontconfig config, which is actually how we do it now, but gnome-settings-daemon detects config changes, so there's no need for a tweak tool to send any signal, it can just write a config file and it will be picked up in a second or two... -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
