Le dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 01:16 -0400, Mike A. Harris a écrit : > However, since there are a large number of Xt, Xaw, and Motif > based applications out there, as well as applications which use > other less common toolkits - all of which use the core fonts > system, it was obvious that we would need to provide core fonts > compatibility in our OS products for the forseeable future. > > The simplest thing to do, was to just leave the existing system > as it was, under the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle, > which is what I have pushed for since the Red Hat Linux days when > we deprecated xfs and core fonts, reserving the future right to > make changes if the need arose. Hi Mike, I can only approve phasing out core fonts one way or another. In fact I'm convinced the last strugglers will *never* move to fontconfig unless Red Hat / Fedora or another big distro exerts a bit of pressure (as was the case for the gcc, utf-8 and selinux migrations), so waiting so long for even making core fonts optional was in the end conterproductive (and OLPC is paying the price today). However I know it's a difficult decision to take, as the users of the bad citizen apps still relying on core fonts are certain to yell loudly near FC-6 release. Good luck, may the force be with you ;) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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