https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329356#c2 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #2 from Mike Fabian 2007-10-04 04:33:34 MST --- joe y> I tried to install other font packages under Yast. The font joe y> files are placed at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ but the new joe y> fonts are nowhere to be selected. Where did you try to select the fonts? In a KDE font selector? In Gnome? Please give some more details! Certainly the fonts are available if they are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. fc-list (from fontconfig) will list all fonts below /usr/share/fonts (and some other directories like ~/.fonts for example) recursively. And most applications like KDE, Gnome, Firefox, OpenOffice, ... are using fontconfig nowadays to find the fonts, i.e. if fc-list can find the font, the applications using fontconfig will find the fonts as well. joe y> I also tried to place it under .fonts home user directory joe y> without any luck. Whether you put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype or in ~/.fonts doesn’t make any difference for the user with that ~/.fonts directory. The difference is only that if you place the fonts into /usr/share/fonts/truetype, they are available for all users on the system, if you place them into ~/.fonts, they are only available for the user with that home directory. joe y> It's only after that I have the new fonts moved to a new folder joe y> under .fonts dir plus some chmod, the fonts are finally joe y> available through font selection dialog. I’ve never seen something like that. I doubt that this is the reason. Some time ago, KDE did cache fonts at startup, i.e. newly installed fonts became visible in KDE only after restarting KDE. I just tried to reproduce that on openSUSE 10.3 and could not see this caching effect anymore. Probably KDE gave up to do that sort of caching. But you usually have to restart the application to make the new fonts visible. For example, if you are using the font setup dialog in the KDE control centre, you will see changes in the list of available fonts there only after restarting the KDE control centre. You don’t need to restart all of KDE, restarting the application where you are looking at the font selection dialog is enough. This should be similar with most other applications, if you are using application foo, you will need to restart foo to see changes in the list of fonts. Closing this bug as WORKSFORME as I cannot see any problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.