Re: [Fwd: Bug#204645: gnustep-back: font_cacher use obsolete /etc/X11/Xftconfig]

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi,

I don't quite understand what this bug is all about. Lets assume that 
you are talking about the xlib backend, the only one that uses font_cacher:

First you should understand that xlib uses different mechnisms to get 
informations about the installed fonts on the machine it is runnig on. 
One of this mechnisms is the tool font_cacher which asks X for all the 
installed fonts. This uses the standard X mechnism to find fonts, if 
this results in invalid fonts your system setup is wrong and must be 
fixed. Nothing in GNUstep could prevent this problem.

When the Xft fonts are used and the fontconfig is installed another 
mechanism gets used to find the existing files (see file 
GSXFTFontInfo.m). Again standard calls are used here.

Could you please describe in more detail which version of GNUstep back 
you are using and what problem you are facing? Another question would be 
why the libart backend wont work for you, but this is outside the scope 
of this thread.

Cheers
Fred


Eric Heintzmann wrote:
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
>
> > From: Alban Browaeys <albanbrowaeys@oreka.com>
> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> > Subject: Bug#204645: gnustep-back: font_cacher use obsolete /etc/X11/Xftconfig
> > Date: 09 Aug 2003 01:14:56 +0200
> >
> > Package: gnustep-back
> > Version: 0.8.8-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: upstream
> >
> > As of X 4.2 and Xft2+fontconfig /etc/X11/XftConfig config file is deprecated :
> > debian fails to noticed this and the file is still there ... though no
> > more updated nor used by fontconfig complient apps .
> >
> > This is not a critical problem on my old debian which have enough fonts
> > descriptions in this file .. i managed to move a few windows stations to
> > debian and them have no access to fonts as gnustep-back does not support
> > libart.
> >
> > I do know the menu quite well, though i admit that s quite boring .X
> >
> > PS: feel free to redirect me to the code , i love objective-C though as
> > a beginner those big libs are still maze to my mind 
> >
> > Cheers
> > Alban
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > Architecture: i386
> > Kernel: Linux argos 2.6.0-test1 #14 Sat Jul 26 13:20:31 CEST 2003 i686
> > Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR
> >
> > Versions of packages gnustep-back depends on:
> > ii  gnustep-back                  0.8.8-1    The GNUstep GUI Backend
> > ii  gnustep-base1                 1.7.2-1    GNUstep Base library package
> > ii  gnustep-gui0                  0.8.8-3    The GNUstep Gui Library
> > ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> > ii  libfreetype6                  2.1.4-4    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> > ii  libobjc1                      1:3.3.1-1  Runtime library for GNU Objective-
> > ii  libwraster2                   0.80.1-7   Shared libraries of Window Maker r
> > ii  xlibmesa4-gl [libgl1]         4.3.0-0ds4 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
> > ii  xlibs                         4.3.0-0ds4 X Window System client libraries
> > ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime
> >
> > -- no debconf information