So, up till now fonts in Debian were supposed to be installed via
Defoma. Defoma has worked fairly well, but it's Debian-specific, and
very complex.
Now however we have fontconfig, which is a more generic way for
applications to find and use fonts. Besides core components like GNOME,
KDE, and Mo
So, up till now fonts in Debian were supposed to be installed via
Defoma. Defoma has worked fairly well, but it's Debian-specific, and
very complex.
Now however we have fontconfig, which is a more generic way for
applications to find and use fonts. Besides core components like GNOME,
KDE, and Mo
Package: xlibs-dev
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 13:15, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:44:31AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > reopen 170559 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > thanks
> >
> > Branden, I've changed my mind; since I have another package (fontilu
Package: xlibs-dev
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 13:15, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:44:31AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > reopen 170559 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > thanks
> >
> > Branden, I've changed my mind; since I have another package (fontilu
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 06:21, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> This is kinda late and may be stating the obvious, but there have been
> upstream releases of fontconfig: http://fontconfig.org/ . Uploading this
> to sid may be a good idea after all?
I don't want to do that before Branden splits xlibs-dev. My
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 06:21, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> This is kinda late and may be stating the obvious, but there have been
> upstream releases of fontconfig: http://fontconfig.org/ . Uploading this
> to sid may be a good idea after all?
I don't want to do that before Branden splits xlibs-dev. M
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:01, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:52:43PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Ok, here's the way I see things happening. We use discover and friends
> > to populate the debconf database, like you do now in the xserver-xfree86
>
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:01, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:52:43PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Ok, here's the way I see things happening. We use discover and friends
> > to populate the debconf database, like you do now in the xserver-xfree86
>
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:21, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took
> > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only
> > if
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:21, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took
> > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only
> > if
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:11, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [Please follow-up to both lists; I am not subscribed to
> debian-gtk-gnome.]
Ditto; I'm not on -x :)
> Okay, so that means you won't upload them to unstable, right?
Right.
> Keith Packard hasn't finished hacking on fontconfig yet; I see imp
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:11, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [Please follow-up to both lists; I am not subscribed to
> debian-gtk-gnome.]
Ditto; I'm not on -x :)
> Okay, so that means you won't upload them to unstable, right?
Right.
> Keith Packard hasn't finished hacking on fontconfig yet; I see im
Hello all,
I've created packages of fontconfig and libxft2; these are needed at
least for compiling GNOME 2.1. In the future, they're supposed to be
part of the XFree distribution, so these packages are only temporary.
Note however that my libxft2-dev package will divert parts of xlibs-dev,
be
Hello all,
I've created packages of fontconfig and libxft2; these are needed at
least for compiling GNOME 2.1. In the future, they're supposed to be
part of the XFree distribution, so these packages are only temporary.
Note however that my libxft2-dev package will divert parts of xlibs-dev,
b
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