Re: Fonts working "out of the box"
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:47:21PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
> Erm yes. Of course each and every user is free to override the setting.
> But *today* allready the sysadmin makes *many* choices for the user. Such
> as:
>
> * which locales are installed
I don't see a reasonable way to let the users decide here.
> * what the default resolution of X is
> * what modules for X are loaded
> * what devices are supported by linux
> * iptables/firewall config
> * which devices the user is allowed to use
> * keyboard layout
All of these are hardware/sysadmin stuff. It's fairly static per system,
and often stuff you don't want users messing with.
> * timezone
It's something important for programs running as root or nobody.
> I think that's good. I, as I user in the first place want to *use* the
> system to do some work and am happy if there's some reasonable default
> setting.
There should be a reasonable default setting, in the package. I don't
see why forcing the admin to mess with it would help anything.
> And as you know there are other OSes that *do* predefine a set of fonts
> and IMHO do it fairly well. And I think those defaults fit quite a few
> users.
Those other OS's have good scaled fonts that cover all the major locales of
the users. We don't, and there's little chance of that changing any
time soon.
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