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Re: Bloat: XML, GUI design (was: Re: [OT] Gnome configuration (was: Re: Congrats! [gnome font rendering]))



On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 11:20, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Yes, but I think the point is, we have no interop issue here: it's just
> one system (gnome) storing its preferences. No other application will
> ever need to read that. So, the big benefits of xml are not really used.

One small point -- GNOME isn't using fonts.conf, X is.

fontconfig is an X component which GTK+ (and I believe RH made the Qt
changes) use to find, identify and use fonts.

When Sid has X4.3, all systems will have it.

Ross
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