On Thursday 07 November 2002 13:26, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:00:53 -0500 (EST) > From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com> > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution > Organization: Red Hat Inc. > Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, w wrote: > >Mike, what we have here is a major "failure to communicate", and you > >(redhat) are 50% of the problem. > > I consider that a complete insult. I've spent several hours of > my own unpaid personal time, to try to help people on this list > understand things. And you say I am failing to communicate? > > >I TOOK THE TIME TO READ THE RELEASE NOTES, and came away thinking all > > I had to do is put the fonts into ~/.fonts or (or /usr/share/fonts), > > and run fc-cache directory. Of course, doing this does NOT get fonts > > recognized for the other app's (mozilla, open office, etc.). > > Have you read the Red Hat Linux online manuals from start to > finish by chance? If so, which ones? If there are things > missing from our manuals, please file documentation bug reports. > If our manuals are missing critical configuration details, then > we certainly want to fix them. If our documentation, and that > includes the RELEASE-NOTES does document something however, and > nobody reads it, well we can't put a gun to their head. > > >> o Red Hat Linux now uses Xft for fonts in GNOME and KDE, which > >> uses fontconfig for configuring fonts. The old style Xft config file > >> /etc/X11/XftConfig is no longer used or supported, having been > >> replaced by the new unified fontconfig method of configuration. The > >> fontconfig config file can be customized by editing > >> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file. > >> > >> If you have fonts that you would like to add to your > >> configuration, you can copy them to ~/.fonts (or /usr/share/fonts), > >> and run fc-cache directory. The fonts will then be available. > > > >It would have been nice if the release notes had gone on to say > > something > > > >like: For applications other than GNOME and KDE, do the following: > >> 1) Put fonts into systemwide TTF font directory > >> 2) "service xfs reload" > >> 3) Restart any applications that you want the fonts to show up > >> in. > > > >If you had done this, it would have saved me hours of searching and > >hacking to get them working. > > RELEASE-NOTES is not a catch-all for every change done to the OS. > Most people do not read neither our RELEASE-NOTES, nor our > documentation, and a large number of them complaining that we > didn't document something - having never even tried to read our > manuals in the first place. We aren't going to make > RELEASE-NOTES a 20Mb file full of changes. That would just make > it even more unlikely that people would ever read it. > > The proper place for this type of stuff is a complete manual, not > some README file. good point .. yes, I'm one of those people who tries to read the manuals before posting to this list .. and it does take a lot of time. I guess I can't suggest a better solution. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
