Bug#178068: xserver-common: suggested modifications for dexconf about bitmap/scalable fonts

[Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Package: xserver-common
Version: 4.2.1-4
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

here is an excerpt from the XFree docs in file README.fonts section 2.2.4:

>For best results, scalable fonts should appear in the font path before the
>bitmap fonts; this way, the server will prefer bitmap fonts to scalable fonts
>when an exact match is possible, but will avoid scaling bitmap fonts when a
>scalable font can be used.  (The `:unscaled' hack, while still supported,
>should no longer be necessary in XFree86 4.0 and later.)

dexconf does not comply with this advice:
 - it uses the :unscaled "hack"
 - scalable fonts appear *after* bitmap fonts

Therefore I suggest that dexconf reorders the FontPath lines when writing the
XF86Config-4 file.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.20-k7 #2 Sun Dec 1 13:41:25 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro

Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  xfree86-common                4.2.1-5    X Window System (XFree86) infrastr

-- debconf information excluded