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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kdebase for 'startkde'
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-03-30 2:18:42
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Gary Greene wrote:
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> On Friday 28 March 2003 11:10 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>I would like to suggest the attached patch.
>>
>>The reason is that this code never worked and it has now been made obsolete
>>by FontConfig.
>>
>>There is one remaining issue for KDE.
>>
>>Fonts are installed in: "$KDEDIR/share/fonts".  These do need to be
>>available to X11 and FontConfig.  The solution I used was to make a link:
>>"$KDEDIR/share/fonts => /uar/share/fonts". On some systems these
>>directories are the same and the link is unnecessary.  I suggest that
>>installation of kdebase should make this link if necessary.  FontConfig
>>would find the fonts there except that I had to ungzip them for it to find
>>them.  This directory (/usr/share/fonts/) should be in the X11 FontPath.
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> This should be changed from /usr/share/fonts to ~/.fonts as is according to 
> the FontConfig man page.

Actually: "/usr/share/fonts" is OK.  However: "~/.kde/share/fonts" should be changed to: 
"~/.fonts" to conform to FontConfig, but that won't fix the other problems.

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JRT

 
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