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Re: [Fwd: Bug#204645: gnustep-back: font_cacher use obsolete /etc/X11/Xf


From: Fred Kiefer
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug#204645: gnustep-back: font_cacher use obsolete /etc/X11/Xftconfig]
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:20:04 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021204

Hi,

I don't quite understand what this bug is all about. Lets assume that you are talking about the xlib backend, the only one that uses font_cacher:

First you should understand that xlib uses different mechnisms to get informations about the installed fonts on the machine it is runnig on. One of this mechnisms is the tool font_cacher which asks X for all the installed fonts. This uses the standard X mechnism to find fonts, if this results in invalid fonts your system setup is wrong and must be fixed. Nothing in GNUstep could prevent this problem.

When the Xft fonts are used and the fontconfig is installed another mechanism gets used to find the existing files (see file GSXFTFontInfo.m). Again standard calls are used here.

Could you please describe in more detail which version of GNUstep back you are using and what problem you are facing? Another question would be why the libart backend wont work for you, but this is outside the scope of this thread.

Cheers
Fred


Eric Heintzmann wrote:
-----Forwarded Message-----


From: Alban Browaeys <albanbrowaeys@oreka.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#204645: gnustep-back: font_cacher use obsolete /etc/X11/Xftconfig
Date: 09 Aug 2003 01:14:56 +0200

Package: gnustep-back
Version: 0.8.8-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

As of X 4.2 and Xft2+fontconfig /etc/X11/XftConfig config file is deprecated :
debian fails to noticed this and the file is still there ... though no
more updated nor used by fontconfig complient apps .

This is not a critical problem on my old debian which have enough fonts
descriptions in this file .. i managed to move a few windows stations to
debian and them have no access to fonts as gnustep-back does not support
libart.

I do know the menu quite well, though i admit that s quite boring .X

PS: feel free to redirect me to the code , i love objective-C though as
a beginner those big libs are still maze to my mind
Cheers
Alban


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux argos 2.6.0-test1 #14 Sat Jul 26 13:20:31 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR

Versions of packages gnustep-back depends on:
ii  gnustep-back                  0.8.8-1    The GNUstep GUI Backend
ii  gnustep-base1                 1.7.2-1    GNUstep Base library package
ii  gnustep-gui0                  0.8.8-3    The GNUstep Gui Library
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6                  2.1.4-4    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libobjc1                      1:3.3.1-1  Runtime library for GNU Objective-
ii  libwraster2                   0.80.1-7   Shared libraries of Window Maker r
ii  xlibmesa4-gl [libgl1]         4.3.0-0ds4 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii  xlibs                         4.3.0-0ds4 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information





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