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Re: xfonts-konsole issues



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On Montag, 28. April 2003 18:44, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > Also the question is why they get installed in /usr/share/fonts instead
> > of /usr/share/fonts/misc.
>
> Isn't this really an upstream issue? The fonts are being dumped directly
> into fontdir, which is (/usr/share/fonts) in our case, by it. Also a
> 9x15 font is already in Xfree xfonts-base package so that font in
> xfonts-konsole should likely go away entirely, to keep from confusing
> the font subsystem.

It is, because you usually install KDE into $KDEDIR - which is by default 
/usr/local/kde; on a SuSE system this would be /opt/kde3. As we're using /usr 
as a prefix, the font files end up in /usr/share/fonts.

I've fixed the issues in both HEAD and BRANCH now like discussed with Chris on 
IRC.

> Regardless of the above issues this shouldn't be the reason people are
> having font problems with KDE since Qt no longer uses the standard Xfree
> method for locating fonts. According to puetzk the reason we see font
> substitions happening is because Qt lists fonts that Xfree can see but
> can't actually use them. If I remember correctly the fix is in Qt 3.1.2
> and is to not list fonts from Xfree at all.

Qt 3.1.2 isn't in unstable :-) and it will take a while since the problem is 
related to glibc IIRC what madkiss said why he couldn't upload it yet. Qt 3.2 
will come out as a beta this week but that won't help too much I guess.

Ralf

>
> Chris

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