there was a fontfs years ago. Oleg was working on the abaco port, he tweaked some stuff yesterday you can get it from http://abaco.oitobits.net
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Federico G. Benavento
