Le vendredi 27 novembre 2009 à 01:45 +0100, Krzysztof Kotlenga a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009 à 22:06 +0100, Krzysztof Kotlenga a > > What is already there is so verbose very few people use it > ^^^^^^^^ > You never know... Fact: I check every single font package that ends up in Fedora. On my system I have find /etc/fonts/conf.d/ | wc -l 239 Is that a good enough sample for you? > > > OTOH the match target/test is a reinvention of emacs' let's use lisp > > syntax as configuration syntax hell > > This doesn't sound like technical merit. This is not about "technical merit" as in "what fontconfig can do". Everyone agrees that fontconfig is a very powerful tool. This is about the usability of fontconfig config syntax. Currently the power of fontconfig is not exercised because its config language is over-convoluted and too low-level (either people do not try to use it at all, or when they shoot themselves in the foot because of the syntax) This is about things like http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911 that should not exist at all if the config syntax was clearer for human beings ("with X, ... I don't think it can do any harm at all." famous last words of one of the commenters, if you knew how often I read something like that from a CJK packager word to see a new bug opened a month later) PS. Why did you remove the list CC? -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
