Re: What backend should be the default now on -nix?

[Alex Perez]

MJ Ray wrote:
> Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
>
> > Le 26 oct. 04, =E0 22:10, MJ Ray a =E9crit :
> >
> > > I'd rather not go through the pain of trying to configure backart's =20=
> > > fonts.
> >
> > er.. there is *nothing* to configure !
> > you just need to install the fonts, that's all.
>
>
> That is not my experience. I managed to get it working on one system here,
> but never the other. How to get it working seemed to depend on the version
> of X, the version of freetype, the version of GNUstep-Back, which fonts
> were installed and the phase of the moon. When it didn't work, it made
> the system so unusable with a corrupted display that I had to quit out
> to a text console. No useful errors in .xsession-errors most of the time.

I never saw a bugreport about any of this, so either (A) you're full of 
it or (B) you're lazy. Please file bugreports. If you're active on 
gnustep mailing lists you should really not feel that uncomfortable 
filing a bug on savannah.

This is not a personal attack, simply an observation. Do us all a favor 
and file a bugerport on this subject. It is literally as simple as 
Nicola describes, and if it is not, it is a BUG, and should be fixed. 
But we have to know about it before we can fix it, and that's where you 
should come in. Reproducing bugs is nearly impossible sometimes if you 
dont have the exact same environment.

Cheers,
Alex Perez