On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:45 +0200, Donn wrote: > > For a). In many Linux distributions, users can not adjust the system > > time before installing system (Except the BIOS). They have to adjust > > system time in firstboot. > I don't understand properly. It seems to me that if time must be set on every > single boot, something's wrong (battery). > If time has to be set only once on first install, then that's okay--it's > before any fonts get installed anyway (I think). > Either way, setting the time into the past is going to mess-up all kinds of > things. Why do it? In some cases, the BIOS's time is in the future. Users can not adjust system time and most of them did not know the time is incorrect, before installing the first OS. So they have to install the first OS with wrong system time. When they first boot the system, they will adjust the time. It's no problem. All fonts have been installed correctly. But after some days, he want to add some new fonts for other languages (Japanese, Chinese, and etc) which were not installed. And then the problem happened. :( > > > For b). fc-cache can not find new installed fonts too. :( > I guess it's the time-stamp on the files, although this seems odd. Is there no > way to locate/grep/touch through all fonts and update their timestamps? or > just set the time correctly and re-install the fonts. I can use 'fc-cahce -f' to re-create all caches. It's easy for me and most of Linux hackers.:) But it's difficult for ordinary desktop users. And I can not add 'fc-cache -f' in POST-INSTALL script of a font package, because it is too slow. Especially, when users install many font packages at the same time (like installing a OS, many font packages will be installed). It will invoke 'fc-cache -f' many times. It waste much time. That is the problem. Hope can find an acceptable solution. Thanks Huang Peng _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
