* Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > now another problem: abaco expects some fonts in > /usr/local/plan9/fonts. > > Seems we need some convenient way for relocating fonts. > Maybe an even an fontserver ? ;-)
I've now manually tweaked the pathes in the source, but this isn't really a good solution ;-o Maybe we should introduce some font server (maybe a little bit like X has one). This font server represents all (virtually) available raster fonts (even autogenerated or remotely fetched) in some convenient namespace, so an client only has to open one file to get an complete font. (maybe we should also invent some complete-font file format instead of splitting them into subfonts in the client's view). In the end, an client should never directly access font files, but instead query the font server. BTW: an interesting thing would be an high-level display server, which is capable of complex operations, eg. viewports, font and image rendering (maybe something between X and windows' DCs ?). The client would only have to send hi-level ops and leave the dirty work to an (maybe hw accelerated) display server. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
