>> Are the plans to provide a fontconfig daemon that monitors the font >> directories and updates the cache if any changes have been >> detected? > > Hrm. Because the set of directories that can be scanned depends on > the configuration, which can be set by the user, a single global > daemon would be difficult to manage. I see. >> I can imagine that such a small tool would be beneficial for all >> platforms. > > Requiring that fc-cache be run after installing fonts might be more > practical. One issue with this is on multi-arch systems where you > need *two* cache files, but you only get one fc-cache program in > your path. OK. Unfortunately, it's far too easy to forget to run fc-cache... Werner _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
