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[Bug 293793] xmag does not work
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- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:11:38 -0600 (MDT)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293793#c9
--- Comment #9 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@xxxxxxxxxx> 2007-07-23 12:11:37 MST ---
The nicest solution for applications like “xmag”, “xfd”, ...
would be to rewrite them to use fontconfig/Xft for their menus.
That would make sure that they always get a decent font because
"fc-match sans" should always find something reasonable.
Currently they use bitmap fonts via the X11 core font system. With
this system, there is no other way but to hardcode font names.
Unless you use "fixed", you can never be sure wether this hardcoded
font name is really there if fonts disappear at random in some
products.
The only other alternative besides using "fixed" or rewriting the apps
to use fontconfig/Xft would be to change their app-default files with
SuSEconfig and put a reasonably good font which is available into the
app-defaults. But that would be a very nasty hack. Rewriting to use
Xft would be much nicer.
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--- Comment #9 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@xxxxxxxxxx> 2007-07-23 12:11:37 MST ---
The nicest solution for applications like “xmag”, “xfd”, ...
would be to rewrite them to use fontconfig/Xft for their menus.
That would make sure that they always get a decent font because
"fc-match sans" should always find something reasonable.
Currently they use bitmap fonts via the X11 core font system. With
this system, there is no other way but to hardcode font names.
Unless you use "fixed", you can never be sure wether this hardcoded
font name is really there if fonts disappear at random in some
products.
The only other alternative besides using "fixed" or rewriting the apps
to use fontconfig/Xft would be to change their app-default files with
SuSEconfig and put a reasonably good font which is available into the
app-defaults. But that would be a very nasty hack. Rewriting to use
Xft would be much nicer.
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