Jesse Barnes wrote: > Well, I created an account but can't seem to edit the page. Anyway, I > like the idea of getting rid of xfs, it seems fairly useless. And to > quote mharris from awhile back: > > >>Long term, what would be really nice, is if someone figured >>out a way to implement core fonts using fontconfig/Xft >>underneath so we have one font system, and it provides >>legacy compatibility to ancient applications that have not >>been updated to modern interfaces. That is something that >>would need to be spearheaded at the X.Org level rather than >>at a specific distribution however. > > > That said, which apps care about core fonts these days? Many hundreds of user-written vertical-integration apps that run on Fedora boxes, but are not in any Fedora repository. The X11 font system has been reasonably well documented for _decades_, including a significant period when those documents were a noted improvement on the documents for the "successor" font systems. -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
