On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, kmark@pipeline.com said > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 moseley@hank.org wrote: > > > Rob, > > > > Thanks much for writing this up. > > > > One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific > > applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding > > of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use. > > > > I would love to see a trouble shooting section. I'm not sure what it > > would include, but perhaps use of strace or ldd to determine what font > > system the application is using. > Hi, > I'd second that! I'd like to know what which font management is used by > App X, so that I know how to address font problems. Maybe it could be > added to packages like: readme.font-config or added to the pkg info like > 'installed-size'. Better font info and thus handling would go a long way > to makeing gnu/linux and debian better accecpted. This bit is easy, since the information is already available in the packaging system: look at the Depends of the app in question. If it Depends on fontconfig, you have your answer. If it depends on xft1, same again. If it depends on libqt3c101-mt or libgtk2.0-0 (the current Qt and GTK versions in unstable) then it's using fontconfig, too. If the only GUI-sounding library it depends on is xlibs, then it's probably just using the basic X core font system. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: national information infrastructure supercomputer halcon
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