Mike FABIAN wrote: >>Why would you want to do that? It seems like it would be flawed unless >>you got a canonical path for the directory anyway. > > > Only because it used to work like that and it is a bit confusing if > the behaviour changes suddenly. > > To get information about unknown fonts, I used to put them in some > temporary directory and call "fc-cache ." there, then I looked into > the cache file. > > As the caches are now (usually) generated in /var/cache/fontconfig, it > has become a bit inconvenient anyway to find out which cache file > belongs to which directory, therefore I guess you are right that it > doesn't matter to loose that behaviour. > > If I want to check what cache files are generated for some new, > unknown fonts, I'll have to add the temporary directory to > ~/.fonts.conf now. > > That's no big problem, therefore I think you are right that we > can forget about directories which are not subdirectories of > directories listed in a .conf file. What about if fc-cat . did what you wanted? I think that would be helpful, although I'm trying to fix the issues with the cache file directories first; it would be great if someone else made fc-cat work to print out directory font information. pat _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
