-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04.04.2013 02:40, Raimund Steger wrote: > LRN wrote: >> What was the rationale behind putting fontconfig cache into >> temporary directory? > > WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE is only one possible value (aside > from a real path) for <cachedir> elements on Win32. Current > fontconfig also supports LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE; see > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3937. WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE is the default, that's why it caught my attention. > >> On *nix it resides in /var/cache/fontconfig. > > On Unix, users have cache directories too, as they can use their > own fonts and/or fontconfig versions. They can, but as far as Debian goes, dpkg postinst and postrm scripts only know of one cache - /var/cache/fontconfig, and is set to trigger cache re-generation when one of these directories /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts /usr/share/texmf/fonts changes (apparently). Users can, obviously, whip up anything they like, but that does not seem to be the "usual" case. > > System-wide fontconfig installations are not really widely used on > Windows although a sysadmin could certainly provide such a thing > (maybe using a custom sysconfdir or fontconfig's feature to load > its configuration from location relative to the DLL on Windows). Yes, i'm planning to implement a feature like that. If everything goes well, expect a patch in foreseeable future. It will add another special value - RELATIVE_SPECIAL_FONTCONFIG_CACHE, which will make fc take its location from the DLL, guess where root directory is (assuming that fc dll is in root/bin), look up root/var/cache directory, and use root/var/cache/fontconfig as the cache file. >> no decent package manager, and i don't think that applications >> keep track of fonts. Which means that it's important to not to >> lose fontcache. > > fontconfig updates the cache automatically, applications should not > need to do anything. Uh-oh. That is why VLC had loading time of, like, 2 minutes after its first install. That is, until developers figured out, that they need to generate fc cache at installation time, from the installer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRaM0yAAoJEOs4Jb6SI2CwgsEIALlRCK/vGzBD/FrW+bWQ8VDb HVlC9bsjfYQCfPuWXjlkz4Gj0K6vLPYrJnw5QJ9hyNcX6w3fY84aPgL5ZSX8Qx7G D49tV/+zZ0+qk/QQok+Y9rEdzVOX2lOsu2TvyPTZjpyxWUaBp0+AV4sVpVeNM2oB m38KpjsmDkOPrVnC2m0z3cwSThgFMCEICkX9bGT5clYfTHre/7ubKc0V2vg9/5yd T0ELmvFOQVuxyhvyR8LJcKB2NSH/3ylrP/JcPSGIGIIqSP9tFj2QZ26LDxjjYTsv Om367W7Bfivvbywa8Mqmec98BlSe3Bq4UAIetdqEFtGXaA3D3eRDpXEybxCJ+e8= =+Vou -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
