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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: suggestion
From:       Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-28 11:57:17
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On Thursday, 28. June 2001 09:52, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> The new Xft (with renderer extension) can use fonts in normal users
> directory without all the mess of the usual X font setup.

AFAIK, Craig Drummond is also about to integrate this capability into his new 
Font Installer module:

http://www.cpdrummond.uklinux.net/kfontinst-new/

> On Thursday 28 June 2001 06:27, George Staikos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 22:13, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > > While the lack of fonts is really an affair of how good is the
> > > distribution you use, installing new fonts remains a thing that has to
> > > be done by the administrator on the system right now (as opposed to the
> > > daily user) and requires a bit of deep knowledge of the XWindow system
> > > that performs the graphical display in Linux. For the moment, KDE
> > > itself can do very little about.
> >
> >    Can't X now do user font dirs?  I thought that was one of the big new
> > features....

Unfortunately, the Font Installer didn't make it this time but will hopefully 
be part of the next KDE version.

Regards,

Thomas


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