KDE and K3b Installation

2006-03-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Thanks to all those who contributed to my questions about the KDE and K3b installation. To Bruce: I didn't think we would do a special change in the KDE instructions to modify the installation, I figured you would just do the change at the next version update. My reason for asking is that I figured

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: You're probably right about Type1 fonts being an issue, but I don't think bitmapped fonts are ignored. I think you're right about bitmap fonts. I install some truetype fonts in /usr/share/fonts/TTF (obviously, as an English speaker, these are the main fonts for me) and I

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/16/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > You're probably right about Type1 fonts being an issue, but I don't > > think bitmapped fonts are ignored. > > I think you're right about bitmap fonts. Hey, Andy, here's a test I thought of. I'm not on my Linux box to

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/15/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I know, what needs to be done is: > > * --libdir=/usr/share for all the font packages. This resolves as > fontdir=${libdir}/X11/fonts/misc (or whichever package you're on) > * --fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts for xorg-server > * syml

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hey, Andy, here's a test I thought of. I'm not on my Linux box to do it myself, and you seem like you have a good setup for the test. In /etc/fonts/conf.d, there should be a file called no-bitmaps.conf (in fontconfig-2.3.2+ there is). Change the name to 10-no-bitmaps.conf

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/16/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion, if Firefox and other Fontconfig dependent apps cannot > render Chinese or Japanese glyphs that is a bug. The solution is to > install bitmap fonts in a location where Fontconfig can find them. I > think the wise thing to do would

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/16/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my opinion, if Firefox and other Fontconfig dependent apps cannot render Chinese or Japanese glyphs that is a bug. The solution is to install bitmap fonts in a location where Fontconfig can find them. I think the wise t

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: The thing about putting all the fonts in /usr/share/fonts is that it's bad to have some bitmap fonts there. Like firefox using the adobe bitmapped fonts when a page calls for Helvetica (I think that's from Alexander). Here's one RedHat developer's take on why Fontconfig sho

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Andrew Benton wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Hey, Andy, here's a test I thought of. I'm not on my Linux box to do it myself, and you seem like you have a good setup for the test. In /etc/fonts/conf.d, there should be a file called no-bitmaps.conf (in fontconfig-2.3.2+ there is). Change the name

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/16/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please install the Firefly font for Chinese, Kochi fonts for Japanese > and Baekmuk for Korean. > > Yes, DejaVu fonts are for European languages only. > > http://cle.linux.org.tw/fonts/FireFly/fireflysung-1.3.0.tar.gz > http://osdn.dl